OFFICE PAPER RECYCLING PROGRAM
Toter Program in Quincy, Il ONLY
Quincy Recycle will provide the following
- Free 95 Gallon Toter
- Free Weekly / Monthly Pickups – Fridays Only
Do’s and Don’t's.
Please feel free to include the following items:
- Office Paper
- Colored Paper
- Copy Paper
- Phone Books
- File Folders
- Newspapers
- Books
- Magazines
Schedule a Toter Pickup (Fridays Only)
If you would like to schedule a Toter Pickup this Friday, or inquire about our Toter program, please click below. NOTE: Toter Pickup requests must be received before noon on Thursday for a Friday pickup.
Basically you can include any PAPER that you would generate on your desk or work station throughout the day. Staples and paper clips are not a problem.
Please do NOT include:
- Cardboard boxes
- Waste Tissue Paper
- Lunchroom Waste Paper
REDUCE, REUSE, and RECYCLE
- Despite growing paper consumption, recycling success resulted in less paper going into landfills.
- Six out of ten corrugated boxes are being recovered, one of the highest recovery rates of any recyclable product.
- Every day U.S. paper makers recycle enough paper to fill a 15-mile long train of box cars.
- One ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees and can be recycled 5-8 times.
- It takes an entire forest of over 500,000 tress to supply Americans the Sunday newspapers every week.
- Papers produced through recycling reduces air pollution by 74% and water pollution by 35%.
- For every one job created by harvesting trees, 5 jobs are created by recycling the paper manufactured from these trees.
