Walkin’ on Plastic Bags
Plastic bags recycled at the Eco-Cycle/Boulder CHaRM
will be made into plastic lumber decking like these
stairs pictured here at the CHaRM. The recycled
plastic lumber is the leading alternative to wood
decks using recycled plastic bags, stretch wrap from
businesses, as well as wood waste such as wood chips,
shavings, and sawdust
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Finally! Eco-Cycle/Boulder CHaRM Accepts Plastic Bags
Attention to Guidelines More
Important Than Ever
by Marti Matsch
Okay, you
asked for it, you got it: plastic bag recycling. After
more than a decade of dedicated recyclers asking us to
please, please take newspaper bags, dry cleaner bags,
and ripped plastic grocery bags that can’t be reused,
we’re finally going to say YES! BUT…before you start
pulling out that stockpile of bags you’ve been
accumulating under the sink in hopes that someday
Eco-Cycle will take them, please read the fine print. It
goes like this:
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Recycle your outdated or
unusable cell phone at the Eco-Cycle/Boulder Center for
Hard-to-Recycle Materials. |
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Phone Waste: A New Toxic Burden
Got a broken
or unusable cell phone on your hands? According to
INFORM, a national environmental organization, a
whopping 130 million cell phones are taken out of
service each year in the United States. And with the
advent of disposable units—talk-time limited phones made
of paper or plastic and intended to be trashed once the
minutes are used up—this number is only likely to
increase. Each cell phone contains a dense accumulation
of toxins, including arsenic, cadmium, and lead. What’s
more, the flame retardant chemicals used in the plastic
phone casings can form deadly dioxins and furans when
burned in an incinerator, and they can leach into the
groundwater when buried in a landfill.
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