America Recycles Day: Rancho Santa Margarita Recycle Information

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA — Recycling may start with tossing bottles, cans and newspapers in a special bin. But it’s so much more. Recycling is about keeping communities clean and safe. It’s about sustainability and diverting waste to the most appropriate places.

Since 1989, California law has required cities and counties to reduce by 50 percent the amount of waste disposed of in landfills. The new goal is 75 percent. Though jurisdictions hold the responsibility for meeting the waste diversion mandates, it is residents and businesses that generate the waste.

Businesses are accustomed to including requirements in their operational plans. Families’ recycling plans typically are dictated by the color of the bins delivered by waste haulers. Then there are the unanswered questions about what goes where.
That’s what America Recycles Day is all about. A national initiative of the Keep America Beautiful campaign, the outreach effort invites people and organizations to take a recycling pledge. Visit https://americarecyclesday.org/pledge/ to take the pledge.

To help residents take action OC Waste & Recycling is offering all Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center customers a free battery bucket and a free child’s admission coupon to visit the Eco Challenge exhibit at Discovery Cube Orange County. Just bring hazardous waste or e-waste to any of the County’s four Collection Centers on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. To find the locations and what to bring visithttp://oclandfills.com/hazardous.

Cities, nonprofit organizations, waste haulers and the County itself are taking the pledge and hosting all matter of recycling and promotional events. In partnership with the Discovery Cube and Angels Baseball, the County conducts ongoing educational outreach efforts, designed to imprint reduce, reuse and recycle behaviors into the consciousness of the next generation.

To focus attention on recycling, the County of Orange issued a proclamation that recognizes the ongoing work of cities, waste haulers and nonprofit organizations in the OC. Every city promotes and supports recycling efforts in some way, from Fix It Clinics that encourage reuse versus disposal to composting, paper shredding and collection events. Below are links to recycling efforts of all Orange County cities and jurisdictions.

Recycling information

Rancho Santa Margarita: http://bit.ly/2eOaiSC

How can you help?
Ever wonder how you can create less waste and help save resources for the future? It just takes a few simple steps to reduce your trash. You can save money and help the environment too!

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