Recycle Indianapolis is an initiative designed to broaden recycling participation in Indianapolis through increased awareness and education by promoting ease of use, waste reduction and environmental responsibility through personal neighborhood and city-wide opportunities.
Recycle Indianapolis encompasses all facets of the city’s recycling programs. This includes, but is not limited to:
- eCycles
- ToxDrop
- Change A Light, Dispose It Right
- Leaf Collection
- Drop-off Recycling
- Curbside Recycling
- Event Recycling Team
Youth art project teaches the importance of recycling in Indianapolis.
Did you know . . .
By recycling, you can make a positive impact on our planet while reducing your total trash volume. Last year, Indianapolis’ citizens recycled over 28 million pounds of recyclable items.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
Recycling one ton of plastic water bottles saves the equivalent of 3.85 barrels of oil.
Recycling all copies of the Sunday edition of the Indianapolis Star would save about 150,000 trees.
In Indiana, if we recycle all used oil filters, we could save 85,000 gallons of oil, 3,000 tons of steel and 1,000 tons of saturated filter media for waste-to-energy processed annually.
Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water.
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