Want to "green" up your next event?

Let OKC Beautiful help you recycle!  We have 75 recycle bins (with lids) available for you to check out & use at your next event.  Whether you use 1 bin or all 75, they are FREE and available to you and your organization.  Neighborhood picnics, holiday celebrations, community runs and walks, school activities, business meetings and conferences are just a few examples of when your organization could use the bins to promote and support recycling efforts.  Help us educate the Oklahoma City community about the importance of recycling at your next event.  Email us for additional information.

Complete & return the Recycle Bin Loan Form or call 405.525.8822 to reserve bins today!

Looking for a long-term recycle plan for your office, school, park, etc.?

Recycling Containers for Offices, Schools, and Parks available from Recycle Away!

OKC Beautiful's Top 5 Reasons to Recycle!

1. Creates Jobs!
   Recycling in the U.S. is a $236 billion a year industry. More than 56,000 recycling and reuse enterprises employ 1.1 million workers nationwide.
2. Reduces Energy Consumption
   It takes less energy to process recycled materials than it does to use raw materials. 
3. Saves Money!
   Making products from recycled products costs much less than using raw materials. Also, when less energy is used we save money in both the public and private sectors (which can lead to more competitively priced goods)
4. Preservation of Natural Resources
   Recycling reduces the need for raw materials; therefore, preserving natural resources for future generation.
5. Landfill Reduction
   No space for waste. Our landfill sites are filling up fast & recycling saves space for waste disposal

Recycle Fun Facts!

• Recycled Paper Production uses 80% less water, 65% less energy, and produces 95% less air pollution than virgin paper production. 
• If every American recycled his or her newspaper just one day a week, we would save about 36 million trees a year.
• Recycling a four-foot stack of paper saves a tree.
• When making cans, using recycled aluminum requires 96% less energy than manufacturing new aluminum from its virgin material, bauxite.
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
• An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
• We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
• The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
• Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

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