At Principia, we recycle cereal boxes, egg cartons, poster board, corregated cardboard, milk cartons, brown packaging paper, and paper bags. Unfortunately, many people are unaware of the amount of cardboard items we actually recycle. It takes one 20 yr. The average grocery store distributes about 800 paper grocery bags per day.
Cardboard is high in demand.
More and more recycled cardboard is needed to prevent the use of trees for cardboard production. It takes 1,000 years for glass to biodegrade. The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle could run your TV set for 3 hours. Glass containers contain lead, which, when it leaks into the water supply, can severely impair children s mental and physical development. The glass we are throwing away into landfills contains valuable materials and can be processed and used again.