Buying recycled represents the third side of the recycling triangle. And the third side is buying those recycled products. Each side depends upon the other two. But, you say, recycled products are hard to find, more expensive and inferior. False, false, false.
Recycled products are now available from the neighborhood grocery store to the national retailers.
Many recycled products are competitively priced with their non-recycled counterparts, sometimes cheaper. And, a 1996 survey of corporate purchasing agents found 97 percent satisfaction with recycled products. Anything made from steel, including food cans, appliances, bicycles, furniture, nails, etc. Also, aluminum, glass, molded cardboard containers, including gray or brown egg cartons, fruit trays or flower boxes. It doesn t include manufacture s waste.