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Recycling Home
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Cash for Bottles and Cans
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Household Recycling
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Apartment and Multi-Family Recycling
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Household Hazardous Waste
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Business Recycling
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Reduce, Reuse and Repair Tips
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How to Start a Recycling Program
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How to Recycle Your Bottles & Cans:
- Option 1: Curbside! Just add your bottles and cans to your household or apartment recycling container. Don't have a curbside recycling container? Call Monterey City Disposal Service to order a free one at 831.372.7977. Curbside recycling helps keep your garbage rates low.
- Option 2: Take your bottles and cans to one of the local BuyBack centers where they will "buy" your containers back from you and refund your California Redemption Value (or CRV). Buyback centers are listed below.
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Why Recycle Bottles & Cans?
Recycled drinking containers made from glass, aluminum, or plastic and other commodities such as paper and cardboard, can be made into new products and even new bottles and cans. Recycling reduces the amount of precious natural resources needed to make these products using raw materials and can be done using less energy.
Recycling Reduces Energy Consumption
Here are some examples:
- One ton of plastic containers made with recycled material saves over 7,000 kilowatt hours
- Recycling one can saves enough energy to run your computer for 3 hours
- Recycling one ton of glass saves energy equal to nine barrels of petroleum.
- Recycling Protects our Environment
- Recycling reduces green house gas emissions, reduces dangerous air pollutants and helps keep our water supplies clean.
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