In honor of Earth Day, April 22, the Loudoun County Office of Solid Waste Management encourages the community to recycle for a cleaner environment. Participating in your local recycling program may do more than you think toward protecting the quality of the environment. This doesn t even include what was collected through curbside recycling programs in the county, which collected many times this amount for recycling. Recycling bottles and cans is also important.
Plastic recycling reduces demand for crude oil and reduces pollution.
For every ton of container glass that is recycled, we save over a ton of natural resources otherwise used to produce more glass. Residents in areas where curbside recycling is unavailable are welcome to use any of the county s eight recycling drop-off centers.