One of the challenges of recycling is getting materials. So much of what we use is recyclable, but keeping it out of the trash to where it actually WILL be recycled is a big challenge. Lets face it, we’re all busy. Recycling is way down our list sometimes. Especially to business owners. If cardboard, paper, plastic, metal and other reusable things can be kept out of a landfill, AND make sense to businesses, then thats a win-win for recycling.
Roll off bins are big business to contractors. When you build a house, when you tear down or remodel a house, you throw away what is mostly recyclable: Concrete. Paper. Plastic Pipe. Wood. All of that can be used again in one way or another. Contractors, especially now are struggling to keep businesses going, let alone finding new work. One of the last things on their mind is recycling. They have to make a profit to stay in business.
Another reason I’m glad we offer roll off bins. Contractors generate waste, and we do offer the cheapest roll offs in Heber and Utah Valley. I’ve seen roll off bins as high as $300.00, so if we can save a contractor money and recycle all of his material, then thats a good thing.
I think thats one of the ways that recycling is going to become more widespread.
If you’re a contractor, let us know if you need a roll off bin for your project. We’ll work with you, and we dispatch same day out of our Orem, Lindon and Heber Recycling Centers.
I live in Heber. I love this town. I love everything about it, from the seasons to the people. This is a great town. This is not me, being website-blog-sales-man. Heber is the best town I think I’ve ever known.
Spent the day in Heber Today. Hundreds of tons of trash come through here, mostly local and we divert it from the landfill, pay people for their recyclables and do our part. Kudos to Wasatch county.
I caught this video today, which I thought was perfect for what Heber Dunn Recycling does. it’s a bale of Aluminum, right next to a bale of cardboard I helped pick out of the trash. Both the steel and the cardboard are going to get shipped next week so they can both be steel and cardboard again. From the town I call home. And this is just Heber. They’re doing this all over the world. Heber is doing its part.
This is one of our balers in Heber. I’ll show more pictures of it later, but what you’re seeing is materials that have been compressed to the point they won’t compress anymore, and this is the finished process. Its pushed out of the baler, where wire is wrapped and tightened from the compressed bale of materials. From here, they’re loaded into a truck and shipped to companies that need this material for manufacturing new stuff. Recycled Material. Such a big difference. Gets me out of the bed in the morning to try and do it again. I love what I do, as much as where I live.
Everyone, from regular citizens to big business, can see the value in recycling old materials.
When I first got involved in Recycling, man I had questions…
Where are the earth freaks in burkenstocks, rallying for change? Haven’t met one yet. I’m cool if you show up. They never showed.
Here’s what I found, and maybe I was a little late compared to most: Recycling makes sense. Not just to the guy or girl trying to save the world, worried about methane gas and global warming, but to everyone. It makes sense to the business owner who generates a huge amount of cardboard, or plastic, or paper… it has to if we are going to be successful.
It’s exactly why recycling will work. Why we’re going to change how the world makes new products.
Business owners are tying to make a buck, in a hard economy. Having a recycling/transfer station close to their job makes sense. less trucking means less fuel costs and road time to their bottom line, and more material in a strategically placed transfer station means more material is going to be recycled. Convenience to a homeowner trying to do the right thing, when they have kids to raise and jobs to go to, means more items get put in a recycling center than in the trash. Sure we all have to do our part, but a recycling center that will stick their neck out, buy land in the right place and bet on people doing the right thing has to make sense as well.
To make a shameless plug, I’m proud to be involved with Dunn Recycling. We have recycling centers and transfer stations in the right places, and the people who divert the trash from the landfill are all committed to recycle it. We know that having a recycling center in the right place, means less trucking, which means less greenhouse gasses, which means the world goes on, and we can make a better way. Not to mention when the truck or homeowner does come in, and we keep their recyclables out of the landfill. It makes sense for Utah. I think its how it SHOULD work.
Anyway, I digress. Recycling isn’t just for hippies anymore. It has to make sense for all of us to do it. In fact, recyclers are a lot more widespread than most people realize. Groovy man, peace out. Are you one?
I work at a recycling center, and my wife and I make every effort to keep recyclables out of our trash.
The younger generation knows what recycling is. They live in a world where recycling is taught, and what it means. As I woke up, got my morning coffee and sat at the computer, reading the morning news my 6 year old daughter came up to me and told me to recycle the aluminum cans sitting on my desk.
I throw all my cardboard into the back of the car, and take it down to be recycled. Steel and metal, never a problem. but the small things, like the aluminum cans, and the shampoo bottles in the bathroom I am maybe not so diligent about. My 6 year old knows right what recycling is. She’s growing up with it, whereas my generation had to be taught.
My wife and I are are always looking for good little jobs for our youngest. Some responsibility. This seemed right up her alley.
I asked my 6 year old how she’d feel about being in charge of making the house rounds and being in charge of recycling for our family. She got this huge smile and was readily excited. She knew right what to do. She grabbed the cans on my desk, took them upstairs and put them in a separate garbage sack. I realized the my kids were going to lead the way on this, and that the next generation will recycle much more efficiently that my generation does. Its a perfect job for her, and makes her feel like she’s over something.
We set up a couple of bins in the garage for cardboard and paper, an extra in the kitchen and extras in the bathroom. She even decorated the bins so they’re her baby
The next few days I’ll take some pictures and report on how we do. Adults are busy. Kids can help us lead the way in this, maybe in your house too?
Recycling Aluminum Cans in your recycling efforts is a great place to start. Not only is profitable for your household, Aluminum is quickly recycled back into new cans and other things. Dunn Recycling will buy your cans!
one of the most awesome non ferrous metals to recycle is Aluminum. We use it every single day, from the aluminum in our cars that get us to work, to the aluminum we drink out of cans. Some aluminum facts:
Recycling one aluminum beverage can saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours or a tv for 2 hours.
The aluminum beverage can returns to the grocer’s shelf as a new, filled can in as little as 90 days after collection, remelting, rolling, manufacturing and distribution.
An average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled every minute of every day.
Recycling one ton of aluminum saves 37 barrels of oil.
Recycling 125 aluminum cans saves enough energy to power one home for 1 day.
It takes 4 tons of ore to produce one ton of aluminum
Aluminum is so easily recyclable. Putting a recycling bin or garbage sack in your garage or kitchen and throwing your used beer or pop cans into them is a great place to start. Why not? Not only do you recycle an easily recyclable material, Dunn Recycling at our Heber location will buy them from you. Aluminum in Utah is more recycled than any other consumer container. Don’t live near Heber? our Orem Recycling center will accept your aluminum containers for free. They add up quickly, and the impact from keeping them out of landfills is instantaneous. Recycle your Aluminum cans!. It’s quick and easy to do.
We’re excited about the launch of our new web site, designed specifically not only to explain who we are, but also be as informative as possible so as to help you out with your recycling efforts. We serve Utah, wasatch and Summit counties as well as surrounding areas, and are here to help you with your recycling efforts! Together, we can make a difference in Utah.
One of the challenges of recycling is getting materials. So much of what we use is recyclable, but keeping it out of the trash to where it actually WILL be recycled is a big challenge. Lets face it, we’re all busy. Recycling is way down our list sometimes. Especially to business owners. If cardboard, paper, plastic, metal and other reusable things can be kept out of a landfill, AND make sense to businesses, then thats a win-win for recycling.
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