Now It's Even Easier To Recycle!

(And, there’s a new contest to top it off…)

Hillsborough County is challenging all residents of Carrollwood Village to recycle more! They’ve issued a goal of increasing recycling by 10 percent. And, they’re partnering with a national organization, The Curbside Value Partnership (www.RecycleCurbside.org) to make it happen. Their successes will be shared nationally as a best practice.

So, let’s help!

You can start today by recycling more and by putting your recycling bins out every week
filled to the brim. Admit it, you don’t recycle everything. Well, now you have added
motivation!

Don’t have a recycling bin? Or, need a new one? No problem. You can do it all on-line, so what are you waiting for? Go to the County’s new recycling Web site, www.HillsboroughRecycles.org, to request yours today.

DID YOU KNOW?

• If we recycled just 10 percent more in Hillsborough County this year, that would:
• Offset enough to water the average lawn 917,000 times
• Be enough to run a television for 140 million hours
• Take 11,000 dump trucks off Hillsborough County’s roads
• Last year, County residents saved over 345,800 trees by recycling 20,344 tons of paper. How cool is that?
• Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.

As a Hillsborough County resident, you can also participate in the County’s “Famous Bins” contest from now through November 30, 2009. Keep your eyes peeled for billboards and bus sides with certain Famous “Bins” or “Bens” scattered throughout the County. When you see one (or more than one) come to www.HillsboroughRecycles.org and tell us which ones you saw. When you guess correctly you’ll be entered to win one of several fabulous prizes! (One entry per “bin” you see.)

You may even get an extra shot at entering the contest when you order your recycling bins TODAY!