County of Haywood

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County of Haywood
Hayw d Recycles A, B, C, 1, 2, Tree

• Sustainability Plan

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Sustainability Plan

• Community
• Awareness
• Demand for Expanded Services
• Board of County Commissioners
• Responsive
• Receptive
• Recognition
• Supportive

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Sustainability Plan

• Sustainability Committee
• Volunteers
• Plan Development
• Internal Focus
• External Focus

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Sustainability Plan

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• B
• C
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• Tree

• Aluminum
• Bottles
• Cans
• 1 Plastic
• 2 Plastic
• Paper

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Sustainability Plan
What to Recycle in Haywood County Its as easy as

• A B C
• Aluminum Cans Soda, Beer
• FYI The United States uses over 80 billion
  aluminum soda cans every year. An aluminum can
  that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years
  from now.
• Bottles/Glass Clear, Brown, and Green glass
  which include beer, wine and variety of food
  items. Sorry, only glass used as food or beverage
  items.
• FYI A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years
  or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's
  in the landfill.
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• Cans Steel cans used for soup, dog food, coffee
  and other items-whip cream bottles, too.
• FYI The average family in the United States uses
  90 pounds of steel cans a year. Recycling steel
  would save 144 KWh of electricity 63 lbs of coal
  112 lbs of iron 5.4 lbs of limestone.
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Sustainability Plan
What to Recycle in Haywood County Its as easy as

• 1 2 Tree
• Polyethylene Terephalate Ethylene (PETE)
  bottles are used for soft drink, juice, water,
  detergent, peanut butter and cleaner bottles.
  
• FYI It takes 17 million barrels of oil to
  manufacture plastic bottles or filling the bottle
  ¼ full with oil for the billions of bottles used
  annually.
• High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) bottles are
  used for milk, bleach, detergent, shampoo,
  butter tubs and water jugs.
• Tree Catalogs, magazines, newspapers,
  telephone books, third class mail and other
  paper products, such as paper grocery bags.
  Corrugated cardboard and household cardboard
  boxes (cereal, cracker, cake mix). If its a box
  in can be recycled!!
• FYI Nearly 33 of waste going in to the landfill
  is paper products that could be recycled.
• Want to STOP junk mail? Go to Proquo.com and sign
  up.
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Sustainability Plan

• Recycling Coordinator
• 3 R(s)
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle

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Sustainability Plan

• Internal Focus
• Initiatives
• Tax Office Scanning Project
• Sheriffs Office Supplies
• Double-sided Copies
• Energy Reduction Plan
• Green Purchasing

• Initiatives
• Document Shredding
• Department Specific Plan
• Incentives
• By Department
• Disbursed Quarterly

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Sustainability Plan

• External Focus
• Initiatives
• Spring Cleaning
• Haywood County Schools
• Haywood Community College
• LEED Certification
• Public Service Announcements (PSA)

• Initiatives
• Composting
• Electronics Recycling
• Chamber of Commerce Green Initiatives
• Incentives
• Recycle Bank
• Convenience Center Bins

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Sustainability Plan

• Hayw d Recycles
• A, B, C, 1, 2, Tree
• Q A

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