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Recycle While You Greenscape
Consider these other ways to recycle while you Greenscape
Each year Americans send 24 million tons of lawn clippings, leaves and tree and shrub cuttings to landfills, taking up about 20% of our landfill space. Making your own compost out of recycled garden waste and kitchen scraps is a great way to enhance your Greenscape as well as protect the environment by keeping these materials out of our landfills.
When designing and maintaining your Greenscape, consider these other opportunities for helping to reduce, reuse, and recycle:
• Chip woody waste and tree clippings into mulch.
• Use rubberized asphalt (made from recycled tires) for driveways, sidewalks, or walking paths.
• Select plastic lumber made from recycled bottles and bags for benches and other outdoor structures.
• Purchase patio blocks and lawn edging containing recovered plastic or postconsumer rubber.
• Use high-efficiency lighting for roadways, parking lots, security, and landscaping.
• Use solar powered lighting and signage.
• Buy hoses, tubing, trickle irrigation systems made from recovered plastic and old tires.
• Rent or borrow equipment instead of buying it.
• Use biobased cleaners and solvents to maintain equipment and recycle used oil and tires.
• Donate healthy plants to local non-profit organizations when redoing your landscape.
For more information about these and other recycling opportunities, visit the U.S. EPA's GreenScapes website or EPA Region 1 GreenScapes website.
The Massachusetts Bays Estuary Association and many of our partners are "Allies" of the U.S. EPA's GreenScapes program.
