St. Cons Recycling Program

Help Our Parish Make Some Cash!

Please bring the following items with you every Sunday. Recycling bins are now placed in the St. Cons parking lot. Spending an extra five minutes a week collecting all of your scrap paper items reduces your trash, saves room in our landfills, keeps our earth green and Makes St. Cons some CASH!

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Fun Facts About Paper Recycling

One ton of recycled paper saves 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space, 4100 kw hours of electricity (enough to heat a home for 6 months or run a television for 41 hours)

De-inked paper fiber is the most efficient source of fiber for the manufacturing of new paper products; one ton of de-inked pulp saves over 7000 gallons of water, 390 gallons of oil, and reduces air emissions by 60 lbs compared to traditional virgin fiber processes

Enough paper is collected for recycling each year to make a box-car train 7,600 miles long

Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million

One ton of recycled paper uses: 64% less energy, 50% less water, 74% less air pollution and creates 5 times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp

Abitibi-Consolidated Recycling Division and its Abitibi Paper Retriever® partners collect enough newspapers each year to completely cover 12,336 football fields in paper one inch deep

see www.paperretriever.com for any questions you may have