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2. Recycling Misconceptions:
Doesn’t save natural
resources
We already recycle all
we can
Recycling is too
inconvenient
Recyclables get
thrown in the landfill
anyway
Single-sort recycling
leads to
useless, contaminated
recyclables
Recyclables aren’t
worth much if anything
Causes more pollution
than it prevents
Costs too much/should
pay for itself
All gets shipped
somewhere far away
One person can’t
make a difference in
recycling
3. Myth 1: Recycling Doesn’t
Save Natural Resources
Life-cycle analysis: examines the entire
chain of events from manufacture to
disposal
For every item
recycled, that’s one
less item that needs to
be produced from
virgin material
4. Recycling 1 ton of steel saves 2,500
pounds of ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and
120 pounds of limestone
Source: Steel Recycling Institute
5. Every ton of newsprint or mixed paper
recycled saves the equivalent of cutting
down 17 trees to make paper
Source: National Recycling Coalition
6. The energy conserved by recycling
exceeds the electricity generated by
waste-to-energy facilities
Minnesota’s Waste Management Hierarchy
7. Myth #2: We already recycle
as much as we can
In 2013, MPCA took samples of garbage
from 6 landfills, including:
Pine Bend Landfill, Inver Grove Heights
8. Findings: about 40% of garbage could have
been recycled
Compostable material (such as food) is
over 25% of our trash
Similar to 2000 (still lots of work to do)
10. Convenience of Recycling
Recycling: more popular than voting!
Voting: 83.9% Recycling: 91%
Source: Eagan Patch, Eagan 2012 Residential Survey
11. All Burnsville residents have access to
recycling as per City ordinance 433 (7-7-4, 12-
2-1991)
Dakota County Recycling Center (The
Recycling Zone) in Eagan acts as a drop-off
site for residents
Single sort recycling (where all recyclables go
into one bin) means less sorting: easier than
ever!
More materials recyclable—can be confusing
Solution: go online to
www.DakotaValleyRecycling.org/curbside to
see a poster of everything your hauler accepts
12. Myth 4: Recyclables just get
thrown away
State Statute 115A.95: Haulers are not
allowed to take materials that were
collected as recycling to landfills or
incinerators for disposal; nor are those
places legally allowed to accept them
13. Haulers bring recyclables to a MRF
(materials recovery facility) to be sorted
Twin Cities MRFs
Allied Waste (Republic) - Inver Grove Heights
Waste Management – Northeast Minneapolis
Dem-Con – Shakopee
14. Recyclables go through a series of
conveyors, screens, magnets and manual
sorting
Let’s see how it works
15. At the end of the process, baled material is
sold for reprocessing
Glass is sold for secondary sorting to be
separated by color
16. Myth #5: Single-sort leads to
contamination of recyclables
―Commingled‖ or ―Single-Sort‖ recycling
means putting all your recyclables in one
receptacle
How can bits of glass be separated the
other recyclables?
Do paper envelopes get mixed in with
plastic bottles?
How do things of similar shapes, like cans
and bottles, get separated?
17. Sorting at the MRF
Sorting process for commingled
recyclables:
http://youtu.be/5YaTpL8nl7c?t=1m19s
Order of separation:
Cardboard (cardboard screen)
―fines‖ (fines screen)
Paper from containers (double-deck paper
screen and banana screen)
Steel from containers (magnet)
Aluminum from containers (Eddy current)
Plastics left over
Glass from ―fines‖
18. After the MRF: Glass sorting
Glass must be sorted by color
Brown (Amber)
Green
Clear
New technology: optical sorting!
Developed for sorting agricultural products
19.
20. After the MRF: Optical
Sorting, Technology in Action !
http://youtu.be/V54iBP2CU6c?t=2m14s
21. After the MRF: Plastics Sorting
How do caps, lids and labels get
removed?
If all colors are mixed together, why isn’t
all recycled plastic an ugly gray color?
22. After the MRF: Plastics Sorting
How do caps, lids and labels get
removed?
Shredded into ―flake‖
Fed into a giant water bath
http://youtu.be/zyF9MxlcItw?t=1m (to 1:39)
PET (#1 plastic, e.g. pop bottles) sinks
Bottle caps (#5), labels, contaminant float
Bath 1: skim off bottle caps
Bath 2: skim off labels
23. Plastics Sorting
If all colors are mixed
together, why isn’t all
recycled plastic an ugly
gray color?
Answer: optical sorting!
www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=EAOg9AaxGWI
Sort as feedstock for
pellet-ization
24. Product:
Companies can manufacture plastic
pellets into millions of colors to, in turn, be
manufactured into ―new‖ plastic bottles
25. Myth 6: Recyclables aren’t
worth anything
Recycling is a business: investment
Market values vary (for both virgin and
recycled materials)
26. Recyclables Worth Something
Aluminum: a pop can returns to the grocery
store shelf as a ―new‖ can in as few as 60
days
Steel: scrap is the largest source of raw
material in the steel industry because it is so
economically advantageous over virgin
Glass: recycled glass extends the life of glass
furnaces. Energy costs drop by 0.5% for every
1% of recycled glass used
Paper: more than 80% of US paper
manufacturers use recycled fiber
Sources: Aluminum Association, Steel Recycling Institute, Glass Packaging Institute
27. Myth 7: Recycling causes
more pollution than it prevents
A national recycling rate of 30% reduces
greenhouse gas emissions equal to taking
25 million cars off the road
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
28. Throwing away an aluminum can wastes
as much energy as pouring out 6 ounces
of gasoline
Making a can from recycled aluminum
takes 95% less energy than making a can
from virgin ore
Source: Keep America Beautiful
29. In the U.S., processing minerals creates 1.5
million tons of air and water pollution
each year
Recycling can significantly reduce these
emissions
Source: World Watch Institute
30. Myth 8: Recycling costs too
much/should pay for itself
MN State Statute 297H: Solid Waste
Management tax
MN State Statute 400.08: financial incentive
to recycle (volume-based rates)
Collection cost + disposal cost + waste tax =
Garbage service cost
Collection cost – sale of recyclables =
Recycling service cost
Households and businesses can save money
by reducing trash volume
31. Financial, economic and
environmental benefits
37,000 jobs in MN directly/indirectly supported
by recycling industry
Recycling creates 4 jobs for every 1 job in waste
disposal and management industries
In 2010, 2.5 million tons of recyclables
collected: est. worth $690 million
Not recycling costs money: 1.2 million tons of
recyclables (worth est. $285 million) were thrown
into landfills, which cost MN $200 million
NRC Recycling Economic Information Study
32. Recycling paying for itself
Thousands of US companies save money by
having voluntary recycling programs
Automotive companies: toward zero waste
GM: 92%, Toyota: 96%, Honda: 10 plants @ 100%
ARROW program: businesses in
Burnsville, Eagan and Apple Valley that
recycle
http://www.dakotavalleyrecycling.org/current-
members
33. Myth 9: Your recyclables are all
shipped out of state/country
Many factories in MN use recycled
materials
Anchor Glass: Shakopee, MN
RockTenn (Paper): St. Paul, MN
Liberty Paper: Becker, MN
Bedford Technologies (HDPE):
Worthington, MN
Choice Plastics: Mound, MN
Many more
34. Recycled Glass in MN
Anchor Glass (Shakopee)
Video (3:58)
Source: Recycling Association of Minnesota, KARE11
35. Recycled Plastic in MN
Bedford Technologies (Worthington): HDPE
5,000 tons of #2 plastic per year turned into
plastic lumber products
Ladtech Systems: (Lino Lakes): HDPE
1,000 tons of #2 plastic per year to make
sewer adjustment rings for manholes
Master Mark (Albany, Paynesville): HDPE
Over 500,000 tons of #2 plastic per year for
lawn, garden and building supplies
Source: Recycling Association of Minnesota
36. Recycled Plastic in MN
Choice Plastics (Mound): multiple
types of plastics
Clean pellets for manufacturing
Gopher Resource (Eagan):
Polypropylene (car battery cases)
Turned into:
Battery cases/covers
Shovels
Floor mats
Car Components
Source: Recycling Association of Minnesota
37. Recycled Metal in MN
Alter Corp.
(Anoka, Hayfield, Marshall, Mankato, St.
Paul): Steel and aluminum
Processor and broker of multiple types of
material
Kirschbaum & Krupp (Minneapolis): Steel
& non-ferrous scrap metal
Source: Recycling Association of Minnesota, MPCA
38. Recycled Paper in MN
RockTenn (St. Paul): Paper
100 tons per day
50% of the paper recycled in MN
Liberty Paper (Becker): Cardboard
200,000 tons of materials diverted from the
landfill each year
Turned into paper
International Paper (Roseville): Paper
21 facilities in N. America
10% of all paper recovered in the US goes
to an Int’l Paper facility
Source: Recycling Association of Minnesota
39. Myth 10: One person cannot
make a difference
The average American generates 4.38
pounds of waste per day
34.5 % of that is composted
61,061 people live in Burnsville, creating
roughly 267,477 pounds (133 tons) of
waste per year
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
40. If every person in Burnsville threw away
just one plastic bottle each day, that
would add up to 22.3 million bottles in the
landfill every year
There are 7 billion people in the world –
what if they all decided not to recycle?
41. ―Nobody made a greater mistake than
he who did nothing because he could do
only a little.‖ – Edmund Burke