the maplewood environmental and natural resources commission serves to protect preserve and then hance the natural environment of the city and to support the mission of the maplewood nature center and neighborhood preserves the commission works with the city and the city council to guide the establishment of environmental priorities policies and procedures the recycling program is one of the largest environmental initiatives run by the city tennessee sanitation is the city's recycling contractor during their twenty fourteen annual review we asked the question where does all that material go and how can we be assured it's being recycled we to are ok with that all single and multifamily households have recycling under the city contract with the roll out of recycling carts recycling has never been easier single recycling with curt's is easy because all recyclable material can be placed in one large container no need to sort out that fancy but we know quite a bit in this building dishwashing liquid by the church champ soap and lotion bottles can also be recycled not everything is recyclable most people including pizza boxes and juice jugs are recyclable even used motor oil bottles it's rinsed can be recycled containers that still contain hazardous products cannot be put in your recycling card sharp objects like needles and nails can be it goes up the infeed conveyor there and then it turns this way and the first two people in line there will pick out any small paper bags magazines the next two people think that doesn't belong here tube and then they'll pick out some scrap metal and the people up on top also pick out scrap metal thing else like that they get so on this one here everybody kind of we have our favorite all you can never we don't buy anything here very rarely almost all plastics have the recycling symbol even items like plastic toys flower and shrub containers and landscape edging monitory baskets and plastic bins have recycling symbols and can be recycled for more information on the disposal of these items please visit ramsay dot com recycling in a soda saves natural resources and energy and reduces greenhouse gases equal to taking one point three million cars off the road just think recycling a ton of paper say to seven thousand gallons of water and over fourteen tons of paper was recycled in maple wood last year that's over nine million gallons of water sieved in just one year recycling is an important industry with a great economic impact according to the solid waste management coordinating board and rethink recycling minnesota recycles two point three million tons of paper plastic aluminum and scrap metal each year in creates over thirty seven thousand jobs in minnesota contributing sixty four million dollars in taxes to help pay for public services visit the maplewood website and get a recycling guide for information on why and how to recycle  know we went from city fourteen in gallon to now most people have chosen the sixty five gallon or we do have a thirty five gallon for people who are single or whatever but for the most part everybody gets sixty five who works the best and i don't know for how many people know yet we haven't had official numbers but recycling is definitely increase in the city of maple there will be a third protecting preserving and in answering the environment of our city the maple wood environmental and natural resources commission