Westmoreland Recycling Research Paper

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Westmoreland County Recycles? I have to admit when I started my research for this project my first thought was recycling we do not know that here, we are too rural for that. Boy was I wrong in my thinking! My first approach to the project was to go to the internet, which seems to be where I start all my research. I did an internet search of “Westmoreland county pa recycling.” The first site that appeared was Westmoreland Cleanways. I had to check it out because not only it was first but also the description was just what I was looking for. I had found the recycling jackpot http://westmorelandcleanways.org/ [ (Keefe, 2011) ] this website had the best item for recycling and that was a guide. This guide listed every (ok I do not if it…show more content…
After reading through much of the site, I believe that is just what they are doing. I am glad that I found this website. I tend to say “One day I am going to that when…” The 2011 Recycling guide will help to put an end, at least to the part when I say, “Once I figure out how.” I currently do some reusing more than recycling. I will reuse a plastic soda bottle to start out my seedlings or a milk jug to cover my plants when a frost is in the forecast. Once those plastic containers become unusable to me what am I to do with them? I have not lived in this area long and I am still learning new place to go, see, and do. Now I have a guide that will help me do at least one thing better. Westmoreland Cleanways is a volunteer based program but the community has not heard the message. There needs to more emphasis on the guide and the organization, one way is to get local boy/girls scouts, schools and community bases businesses to display flyers or participate. Programs of this nature help take the guesswork out of recycling for the individual there by helping change human behaviors. Once something becomes easier for a person to accomplish the more likely one will commit to the…show more content…
There is a local company, Daniels & Miller, Inc. that recycles aluminum cans, aluminum, scrap metals, copper, steel, brass, stainless, old sheet iron, and scrap iron. This area has many farms with old equipment just rusting away. These machines could be turned in for scrap metal with a little work. There was an old rake for a tractor on the property when we bought our house. It was unusable, unsalvageable, and an eye sore. We had someone offer to dismantle and haul away. I was that they could earn up to $200 on the metal. It took them just over an hour to cut it apart and put on the back of their truck. Currently Daniels & Millers website states they are paying 70 cent per pound of aluminum cans [ (Daniels & Miller,Inc., 2011) ]. Scrap metal recycling help reduce the energy spent on producing new materials. Today many items are constructed with recycled metals because metal “does not shed its material composition or its power” [ (Learning about the Scrap Metal Recycling Process) ]. Since the new metal does not have to be processed, this helps save the manufactures money by reducing the costs. Citizens can make money when turning scrap metal. The lack of need for new minerals for the metals saves the earth’s valuable

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