Urge St. Elmo to Recycle

Open Curb Side Recycling

City Council,

As a concerned citizen, I am requesting that St. Elmo adopt a few opportunities that ALREADY exist in hundreds of thousands of cities.

Please open the opportunity to curb side recycling for public schools, residential households, public buildings and business, etc.

A few critical facts to keep in mind:

1. Recycling 1 ton of aluminum cans conserves the equivalent of 1,665 gallons of gasoline
2. Each person creates about 4.7 pounds of waste every single day, or more.
3. If we put all of the solid waste collected in the U.S. in a line of average garbage trucks, that line of trucks could cross the country, extending from New York City to Los Angeles, more than 100 times.
4. The total volume of solid waste produced in the U.S. each year is equal to the weight of more than 5,600 Nimitz Class air craft carriers, 247,000 space shuttles, or 2.3 million Boeing 747 jumbo jets.

It's time to protect OUR community, environment, constituents and budget.

Please act immediately, every day we wait and waste, is hundreds of pounds of garbage!

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