$ $ $ $ Recycling Recycling Means Recycling $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $$ $$ Means Protects The $ Economic and Environmental Business Benefits for Environment Recycling Helps Pennsylvania's Economy Recycling Provides Industry with An Recycling manufacturing involves the conversion of Environmentally Preferable Source of Raw recyclables into new products. The primary recycling Materials industries in Pennsylvania are steel mills, paper and Supplying industry with recycled materials, rather than paperboard mills, plastic converters, glass container plants virgin resources extracted from forests and mines, is and nonferrous metal manufacturers. These and other environmentally preferable because it saves energy, reduces recycling manufacturers employ more than 64,000 people emissions of greenhouse gases and other dangerous air and with a payroll of almost $2.5 billion and annual sales of water pollutants, and conserves scarce natural resources. In more than $15.5 billion. 2004, Pennsylvania recycling programs supplied industry Reuse and remanufacturing focuses on the refurbishing and with over 4.8 million tons of commodities like metals, repair of products. The largest activities are retail sales of paper, glass, plastics, wood, organics and other materials. used motor vehicle parts and used merchandise. Reuse and remanufacturing contributes more than 7,000 jobs, a payroll Recycling Conserves Natural Resources of $115 million and sales of more than $500 million Recycling conserves the world's natural resources and annually. reduces the need for landfills and other disposal facilities, Municipal and private collectors, material recovery and thus allowing land to be used in other ways. Substituting composting facilities, and recyclable material wholesalers scrap materials for other virgin materials reduces the employ nearly 10,000 people in Pennsylvania with a payroll pressure to expand forestry and mining production. For of $284 million and annual sales of $2.3 billion. example, by recycling over 1 million tons of steel in 2004, Pennsylvania industries saved 1.3 million tons of iron ore, Support businesses that provide goods and services to the For YOU! 718,460 tons of coal and 61,582 tons of limestone. Through recycling and reuse establishments also contribute to the recycling newsprint, office and mixed paper, we saved over Commonwealth's economy. Recycling and reuse Automobiles, ...CAN BECOME... appliances Wire 8.2 million trees. equipment manufacturers, consulting/engineering services, and cans (steel) brokers and transporters contribute an additional 13,297 Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions jobs and $1.8 billion in annual receipts. Automobiles Recycling in Pennsylvania reduced greenhouse gas Bicycle frames Recycling Contributes to State Revenues emissions by 1.9 million metric tons of carbon equivalent. Pennsylvania tax revenues from recycling and reuse ...CAN BECOME... Compost Milk jugs ...CAN BECOME... Recycling Saves Energy Leaves, to help grow and fruits businesses are estimated at $305 million dollars per year. new gardens laundry and Recycling in Pennsylvania saves more than 66 trillion detergent vegetables bottles Toys BTUs of energy each year, enough to power 643,000 homes (HDPE plastic) and the equivalent of saving 531 million gallons of Decks and lumber Recycling Means Business gasoline. Cardboard, ...CAN BECOME... in Pennsylvania Glass ...CAN BECOME... Glass tiles office paper New boxes Recycling Reduces Emissions of Air and Water bottles and newspaper Greeting cards and Bottles Newsprint Pollutants Recycling and Reuse Jars and jars Establishments 3,247 Fiberglass Pennsylvania's recycling efforts reduced other air insulation Recycling and Reuse emissions, including 7,731 metric tons of sulfur oxides and Employment 81,322 jobs 8,814 metric tons of nitrogen oxides. Water pollution Fleece jacket Annual Sales Receipts...... $ 1 8.4 billion Soda ...CAN BECOME... Tires ...CAN BECOME... Crumb rubber reductions totaled more than 9,000 tons in 2004. bottles Fiberfill Annual Payroll...... $2.9 billion and peanut Indirect Benefits...... $1.8 billion butter Flooring containers Shower Taxes to General Fund(est.)...... $0.3 billion (PET plastic) curtains Athletic tracks TOTAL $23.4 billion Carpet Pennsylvania’s Recycled Product Manufacturers Automotive Supplies Phoenix Recycled Miller’s Wood East Penn Mfg. Lyon Station Plastics Conshohocken Recycling Lewistown Edge Rubber Chambersburg Polycycle, Inc. Scranton Nelson Alternative Exide Corporation Reading Port Erie Plastics Harborcreek Disposal Systems Waterford Leer Corp., Quality Fence & Supply New Holland Rutter Co. Murrysville Masland Div. Carlisle Recycled Rubber Omega Wood Products Marcus Hook Mats From Flats Pequea Technologies Somerset Pandya Inc Davidsville New Castle Battery Co. New Castle Reifer Rubber Manheim Reifen Rubber Co Manheim NRI Industries Chambersburg Safety Turf Inc. Oaks Reuben Stoltzfus Honey Brook Bottles & Santana Products, Inc. Scranton Scotts Corporation Oxford Containers Specialty Plastics Waste Not Technologies Saylorsburg Unlimited Blue Bell Winans & Sedeski, Inc. Hallstead Drug Plastic and Tarco Roofing Zeager Brothers Middletown Glass Co. Boyertown Materials Green Castle Zwicky and Sons Robesonia Graham Packaging York Trafcon Industries Mechanicsburg Zwicky Processing & Recycling Fleetwood Interstate Container Reading Wilsons Service Center Stewarttown Owens-Brockway Glass Clarion Packaging Materials Winzinger Recycling Owens-Brockway Glass Brockway Dart Container Corp. Downingtown Yates Company Erie Owens-Brockway Glass Crenshaw Deltapaper Corp. Leola Yorktowne Paper Mills York Saint-Gobain Foam Fabricators Erie Containers Port Allegany Cans & Metals Foam Fabricators Bloomsburg Building Materials AMG Resources Corp. Isco Systems Biglerville Bethlehem Lukens Plate Coatesville Raybob Packaging, Inc. Tullytown Aeolian Enterprises Latrobe Pennsylvania Steel Tech. Steelton Rewrap Philadelphia Aged Wood York U.S. Steel – Edgar SCA Packaging NA New Brighton RECY CLING American Recycled RREECCYY CCLLIINNGG Thompson Works Braddock Signode Consumable Plastics Downingtown RECYCLING Wood & Pallet Portersville RREECCYYCCLLIINNGG Wabash Alloys Marietta St. Jude Polymer Frackville Applegate Insulation Chambersburg Treen Box and Pallet Co. Bensalem Armstrong World Industries Beaver Falls Clothing & Accessories Armstrong World Industries Marietta Close the Loop Kunkletown Paper & Office WO RKS Bil-Dry Corporation Philadelphia Coffee Vest Co. Pittsburgh Adhesives Research Glen Rock WWOO RRKKSS WORKS BJM Industries Kittanning Knutes Lemont American Eagle Paper Mills Tyrone WWOORRKKSS Black Rhino West Mifflin Leo Sewell Philadelphia American Renaissance Paper Bala Cynwyd Bristolpipe Leola Littlearth Productions Pittsburgh American Thermoplastic Pittsburgh Carlisle Tire & Wheel Carlisle New Threads Philadelphia Cartridge Master Berwick Cedar Hollow Recycling Phoenixville Performance Sports CFC Office Furniture Kelton Certainteed Valley Forge Apparel Reading Connelly Container Philadelphia Conklins Unique County Susquehanna Rag Rugs Dillsburg Greenline Paper Co. York Crafco Allentown Rainbeau Philadelphia Laser Link, Inc. Boyertown Recycling Services Pottstown Laser Protech Berwick Recycling Philadelphia White Light Productions Downingtown Laser Supply Inc. Edgemont Dodge Regupol Lancaster Home & Yard Laser Technologies Exton Enviro-Products Inc. Dillsburg Laserlink, Ltd. Aston AgRecycle Pittsburgh Erie Energy Products Erie Max International Paper Lancaster B & R Recycling Mechanicsburg Everlast Plastic Lumber Auburn Morco, Inc. Cochranton Bird Adobes Macungie Global Rubber, Inc. King of Prussia Newman & Company Philadelphia Centre County SWA Bellefonte General Recreation Newtown Square Newstech PA Northampton Confab Corporation Wayne Insul-Board, Inc. Erie P. H. Gladfelter Co. Spring Grove Dumor Mifflintown Laminations, Inc. Scranton Reading Paperboard Sinking Springs FOR YOU Dyco Industries Bloomsburg FOR YOU Leapfrog Technologies Altoona Rock-Tenn Company Delaware Water Grandview Nurseries North Huntington National Gypsum Columbia Gap Greater Lebanon New Pig Corporation Tipton Sealed Air Corp. Modena Refuse Authority (GLRA) Lebanon Omega Transworld, Inc. New Kensington Suriyage Art Lancaster Grow Joe, Inc. Bellefonte Omni/Ajax Sugarloaf Westvaco Corporation Williamsburg Henry Molded Products Lebanon Omni Products, Inc Lancaster United Corrstack, Inc. Reading IN James Industries Holidaysburg I N Pat & Reds Tire Service East Stroudsburg Yazoo Mills, Inc. New Oxford John Rock & Co. Coatesville Penn-Pro Insulation Washington Keslick & Sons Modern Recycling Containers Permagrain Products Newtown Square Arboculture Products West Chester Rehrig Pacific Company Erie Perry County Mahatango Tire, Inc. Liverpool United Receptacle Pottsville Recycling Corp. Newport PENNSY LVANIA Windsor Barrel Works Kempton PENNSY LVANIA

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