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Recycling at Work: Easier than Ever!

The Hamilton County Solid Waste District (District) offers free assistance to companies that would like to implement recycling in their offices. If you have always thought about exploring recycling on the administrative side of your company, consider taking advantage of the District’s Recycling at Work program.

With Recycling at Work, the District will assist you in developing a program expressly suited to your company’s needs. The District provides as many desk-side containers as you need and education about recycling for your employees.

Recycling is easier than ever now!

If you are interested in taking advantage of the Recycling at Work program, call the Recycling Hotline at (513) 946-7766.

Why should you recycle at work?

The average office worker generates between 120 and 150 pounds of recyclable paper each year. A building with 300 people could recycle more than 18 tons of paper a year.

Recycling 18 tons of paper saves:

  • 306 trees
  • 36 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 22,680 miles)
  • 73,800 kilowatts of energy (enough to power 9 average homes for a year)
  • 57.6 cubic yards of landfill space
  • 1,080 pounds of air pollution
  

You can recycle
all of the following:

   Office paper
   Copy paper
   Junk mail
   Magazines
   Newspapers
   Telephone books
   Envelopes
   Cardboard