Update

Almost three weeks into 50 Great Days the World Wide UCC

community has invested 25, 314 hours into caring for the planet, planted 5, 731 trees and written 2, 754 advocacy letters. 

This week we’d like to think about our trash impact on the

environment.  An average American person produces about 4.5 lbs of trash every day.  We don’t think about it, just send it off to the transfer station and it is no longer our problem.  But what really happens to our trash at the transfer station? 

It is more economical to sort and sell trash for recycling then it is to pay dumping fees.  It costs about $75 per ton to transport and

dispose of trash. 

· Paper and cardboard get sent to China and Canada to get turned back into paper. 

· Plastic gets recycled and turned into new plastic products,    carpet and lumber.

· At the BCEP glass is ground up and sent to Chichester to be used in making roads.

· Vegetable oil can be cleaned and burned for fuel.

· The actual trash can be sent to a landfill in Rochester or sent to an incinerator. 

· One of the most significant costs that is incurred comes from food waste.  Because it is wet and heavy it costs more to dump and it isn’t something that transfer

stations can compost themselves.