Employee Recycling Program Expands to include Plastic Bottles - Volunteers Needed

253-657-9818 (Web site phone number) you will hear the following:

Thank you for calling the Employee Recycling Program. We are a 501C3 organization which provides financial aid to sports training and competition for people with disabilities.

To report full bins, request replacement bins or to become a volunteer please call one of the following; leave your name, phone number and building number

Everett 425-342-2108
Renton 425-965-2418
Bellevue 206-850-6372
Kent 253-657-1485
Auburn 253-931-6298

For all other sites please leave your name, phone number and building number and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Or visit us at our website
www.employee-recycling.org

Click the links below to learn more about recycling plastic:

http://www.cpiaca/allplasticbottles/collect.php

http://www.cleaning101.com/environment/recycleit1.html

The most common plastic used in water bottle manufacturing is PET (polyethylene terephthalate), an environmentally unfriendly substance that actually requires 17.5 kilograms of water to produce only 1 kilogram of PET. In fact, more water is used to make PET bottles than is actually put into them.

The production of the plastic also produces numerous byproducts that are extremely harmful to the environment. The Container Recycling Institute reported that 14 billion water bottles were sold in the U.S. in 2002, yet only 10 percent of these bottles were recycled - 90 percent ended up in the trash. That's an extra 12.6 billion plastic bottles for the landfills; bottles that contained water that was no more - and often less - healthy than tap water.

Thank you and have a great day