Buy Recycled!
Returning your beverage containers, newspapers and other recyclable products is the first step in recycling process. You can take the next step by shopping for the products made with recycling materials. When you buy recycled, you "close the loop" or complete the recycling process.
Buying products that contain recycled materials helps conserve natural resources and protects the environment. Buying products made with recycled materials also helps us avoid cutting down more trees, drilling for more oil or digging up the earth for more materials
California law requires that any consumer goods labeled "recycled" must contain at least 10% post-consumer content. Post-consumer means any material that the public has already used and recycled.
When shopping, look for the highest percentage of post-consumer recycled content that you can find.
Be aware, claims such as "environmentally friendly, eco-safe and safe foor the environment or natural" do not necessarily mean that the product can be recycled or contains recycled materials.
Look for labels indicating that the item contains post-consumer recycled content
Choose products made with post-consumer material. If they are not carried in your local
stores, ask your store manager to begin stocking products made with recycled materials.
Shop by mail for items with recycled content if you can't find these products locally.
Write to manufacturers and ask that they begin producing products with recycled content.
Encourage others in your office, school, business, and community to buy recycled products.
Californians are recycling more than 80% of all alumium, glass, plastic, and bimetal beverage
containers in the state.
In 1994, more than 10 billion containers were recycled.
When you recycle in California, most of the time these materials are manufactured into another
product. This saves valuable natural resources and energy, as well as prolongs the use of limited landfill space.
In the three minutes it will take you to read this page, Californians will recycle more than
60,000 beverage containers.
The next step is to buy products made with recycled materials
This information is from "Take The Next Step, Buy Recycled" by the California Department of Conservation
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