What's Your Contribution?

When you don't recycle, it's like throwing money away.

590,000 tons of recyclable material went to South Carolina landfills in 2016.

Items like: aluminum cans, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, office paper, plastic bottles, and steel cans.

$24,190,000
In Lost Revenue

How much did you throw away?

The economic POWER of recycling.

Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1000-2000 gasoline.
1 aluminum can recycled can save enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours or its equivalent to half a gallon of gasoline.
Plastic bottles are made out of OIL - the same oil that is used to make GASOLINE.
An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now: aluminum can be recycled repeatedly!

How much are you throwing away?

Recycling in SC creates 22,000 jobs &
2.7 billion in annual labor income.