Gunston Middle School Recycles! It’s Easy to Recycle Bottles, Cans, and Mixed Paper!

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Gunston Middle School Recycles!

It’s Easy to Recycle Bottles, Cans, and

Mixed Paper!

What Happens to What You Recycle?

Recycling at Gunston Middle School

What You Can Recycle

– Bottles and Cans

– Mixed Paper

Recycling at Gunston Middle School

What You CANNOT Recycle– Yogurt cup and bottle caps– Plastic bowls and boxes– Margarine and dairy tubs– Pizza Boxes

Recycling at Home

What We Can Recycle

Recycling Saves Our Natural Resources

Recycling Paper at Home

Recycling Plastic Bottles at Home

Recycling Cans at Home

Recycling Saves Natural Resources

What natural resources are used to make …

• Paper?• Plastics bottles?• Aluminum cans?

Recycling Saves Natural Resources

Paper Plastics bottles Aluminum cans

What natural resources are used to make …

Bauxite ore

Gunston Goes Green

Recycling Truck Collects Your Recycling

Truck Delivers to Recycling Facility

Recycling Facility Sorts Mixed Paper

Recycling Facility Sorts Bottles and Cans

Sorting by Hand to Remove Trash

Aluminum Cans are Baled for Resale

Mixed Paper is Baled for Resale

Sorted Recycling Bales are Sold to Manufacturers to Make New Products

New Products Made from Recyclables

Bench made from plastic bottles

Recycled can back on store shelf in only

60 days!

Close the Loop

RecycleBuy Recycled

Products

Gunston Goes GreenGunston Recycling Coordinator

Elena Rodriguezelena_rodriguez@apsva.us

703-228-6957

For more information, please go to http://www.apsva.us/gunston/

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