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• Concentrate on one cause at a time.
Do not feel that you have to take on
the whole world.
• Stay on top of volunteering opportunities.
Visit the websites of individual
organizations and sign up to receive email
newsletters that notify you of
upcoming opportunities or other
ideas.
• Combine green projects at home with
community volunteering activities that
are not necessarily green. For example,
you could make recycled craft project
kits for children at low-income schools,
or make piñatas out of reused newspaper
and hold a party for an elderly
group at a nursing home.
Recycling
The recycling logo is a triangle
made up of three arrows that flow in a
continuous loop. These arrows stand
for the three parts of the recycling
process: collecting, manufacturing and
buying.
1Collecting. Recyclable products,
such as plastic, glass, aluminum
and paper, are separated from non-
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recyclable waste before going through
a process that turns them into raw
materials. Different communities practise
different ways of collecting recyclables.
These days, many utilize curbside
recycling bins or designated recycling
stations where people can drop
off materials.
2Manufacturing. Once the first, big
step of collection is carried out,
the focus turns away from individuals
and cities and toward manufacturing
companies. But not just any company
will do. The companies have to want or
need the recyclable materials, and they
also have to possess (or acquire) the
proper means for re-manufacturing
the materials into consumer products.
3
Buying. The only way recycling
makes economic sense — and
therefore will remain successful — is if
consumers buy recycled products. This
encourages companies to continue or
start manufacturing products that contain
recycled components.
Just like the sides of a triangle,
you cannot have one part of the
process without the other, and the
concept of productive recycling is
not complete without all three parts
— looping around and around without
end.
Adapted from 50 Plus One Tips for
Going Green; Alicia Marie Smith,
www.encouragementpress.com.
Resources
Take it Back is a guide of almost 500 local Ottawa retailers that are ready
to take back your used household products. The Take it Back! program
ensures that all sorts of household materials are reused, recycled or disposed
of properly instead of going to the landfill.
City of Ottawa Recycling Guidelines and Depots:
www.ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/special_items/index_en.html.
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Ottawa Page 31 Due West/Due East Magazine • Fall 2008