Going Green Tips for the Holidays:

The city of Tampa will collect Christmas Trees to be recycled on Jan 8 &9, 2009 depending on your normal yard waste day.

TPD will take your old cell phones to provide battered spouses and children with the ability to contact 911, TPD will use the cell phone holders to train the Police Dogs. So don’t forget to provide them with the cell phone accessories that you no longer need.

Consider recycling those no longer needed electronics. Recycle your personal computers, televisions, stereos and other components. There are several local companies that will keep the hazardous materials out of our landfills. (you can either provide a link [http://www.mygreenelectronics.org/ ] or list the closest or refer them to our website, let me know what you want to do)

Recycle those packages, cans, cards and bottles curbside. If you need additional recycling bins or need to replace existing ones use the link located on our website or call 348-1111 (extension 2).

Recycling Fun Facts
• We throw away enough aluminum each year that we could rebuild our entire commercial air fleet every 3 months.
• We throw away enough office paper each year to build a 12 foot high wall of paper from New York to Los Angeles.
• We throw away enough plastic soda bottles each year to circle the earth four times.
• We throw away enough motor oil each year to fill 120 supertankers.
• We throw away 20 million tons of grass clippings, dead leaves and branches a year.
• An average size family's yard waste can make about 300-400 pounds of finished compost (humus) a year!