Inside 43215: Downtown Lifestyles
RE-USE REFUGE
Recycling comes naturally to some people. They keep a little basket for their rinsed-out Diet Coke cans… and two more baskets on their desks for the cardboard and plastic wrappers from Twinkies, respectively. The recyclers will even rescue dead batteries and ink cartridges from colleagues’ trashcans.
Then there are those of us who accumulate piles of important papers – massive piles. Eventually, the papers become less important, and we’ll think about recycling them.
But the trashcan is only three steps away.
Good news has arrived. Soon the recycling receptacles will be just as close as the circular files…
Thirty-five property owners have banded together to institute a real recycling program downtown. It’s not just one building; it’s an entire neighborhood working together. A downtown audit’s projections say that together we can decrease waste production by almost half.
As the programs develop, you can take some early pro-active steps at SWACO’s (that stands for Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio) Web site. You can learn more about waste and recycling… plus, the site’s got video games.
Folks who are successful at recycling will tell you that they enjoy the sorting process. It’s a simple, satisfying task. Putting something like plastic in the plastic bin is just as easy as putting it in the trash.
More importantly, it’s the right thing to do.
For other recycling information, visit DowntownColumbus.com
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