Recycling in Columbia

A World Wide Web site helping you to protect resources, reduce landfill growth and feel responsible for the world you live in.

You wouldn't believe the masses of household waste being dumped every day into Boone County's landfills. Buried into the earth, heaps of rotting food, paper, plastic, metal, clothing and even dangerous materials from your every-day-use are put together to react chemically in any imaginable way. Producing even more dangerous substances, landfills destroy land, poison the ground and endanger clean water and clean air. "What can I do about all this?", many frustrated residents ask. The solution to this is easier than you might expect - you can get rid most of your waste in a way preserving the environment and saving natural resources - the resources the lifes of your children depend on. Take responsibility and use the information contained in this document

Find out about:

Composting

- the easy way to gain fertilizer for free, remove the smell of rotting food scraps from your kitchen trash and to keep the organic material circulating in nature.

Recycling

- cans, bottles, paper and plastic can be returned to industry as a raw material very easy: the residential waste guys come to your place to pick them up!

Avoiding waste

- reducing waste by not producing it. A shopper's guide to environmental conciousness.

Credits

This collection of documents is copyrighted by Lothar Fritsch in December 1995. All photgraphs and images (except those mentioned below) are (c) Lothar Fritsch. No use or duplication without permission.
Sources for pictures:

• compicon1.gif through compicon5.gif taken from "Backyard Composting"
• recicon1.gif through recicon5.gif from Columbia's "How to prepare curbside recyclables" flyer
• comp3sect.gif from MU Guide
• Recycle-Logo from MU Recycling Comittee flyer
• worm_c.gif from Columbia earthworm flyer