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Community and Environmental Benefits
Some
of the ways Bedford
Recycling benefits the
local community:
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Allows local residents
to get paid for items
that are of no further
use to them without
having to haul it a long
distance
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Provides jobs for more
than 50 people, and
offers health insurance
benefits for them and
their families and 401k
plans
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Source of tax revenue
for the community
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Ships
products and provides
services to companies
who are OUTSIDE our
community, which brings
NEW money IN to our
community in the form of
Sales
dollar for sales dollar
this benefits the
community more than, for
example, a retailer who
buys their products from
outside the community
(or country) and sells
them here. This tends to
send more money OUT of
the community than it
brings in (This is not
to say that retailers
are not a vital
component of our local
economy).
Some of
the ways Bedford Recycling
benefits the environment:
Recycling anything takes
items and materials that
are of no further
use to anyone, and puts
those materials back to
work, making them useful
again. All without
having to dig anything
out of the earth (each
ton of recycled steel is
a ton that isn't made
from steel that requires
additional natural
resources).
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Recycling reduces
the amount of
material going to
landfills
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It takes 60% less
energy to make
recycled steel than
it does to produce
steel from raw
materials
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It takes 95% less
energy to make
recycled aluminum
than it does to
produce aluminum
from raw materials
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For every ton of
steel recycled, 2500
pounds of iron ore
and 1400 pounds of
coal are conserved.
In
2008 BRI recycled 34,637
gross tons (77,586,880
lbs) of steel and
2,317,352 lbs of
aluminum.
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