Hamilton County Communities
Increase Recycling Again in 2010!

Hamilton County communities continue to raise the bar on recycling and have made 2010 another stellar recycling year. We increased our residential recycling by approximately 3,269 tons between 2009 and 2010! The residential recycling efforts in Hamilton County:

    Conserved enough energy to power 6,786 homes for a year
        (more than all the homes in Blue Ash and St. Bernard combined).
    Reduced greenhouse gas pollution equal to every household in
        Hamilton County not driving their car for almost a month.
    Saved 342,789 trees from being harvested
        (more than one tree for every resident of Cincinnati).

Over 90% of all Hamilton County communities improved their recycling rates between 2009 and 2010! The following communities achieved major increases in their recycling rates:

 

Congratulations on such a successful year! Let,s continue the trend in 2011.

Under the Residential Recycling Incentive Program structure, the higher a community’s recycling rate, the more dollars per ton they receive. For ideas on how to increase your community’s recycling rate, check out some of the other articles throughout this newsletter and past editions of the WasteLine.

See how your community ranks with other Hamilton County communities