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22 Facts About Plastic Pollution (And 10 Things We Can Do About It), EcoWatch

3 Plastics to Avoid, Esquire 

7 Companies That Will Buy Back Electronics, Postlandfill.org  

A lot of US plastic isn’t actually being recycled since China put up its Green Fence 

The Aluminum Association, Main Page and Recycling Information Page

Common Plastic #1 to #7: How can I tell what type of plastic something is made of, and if that plastic is safe?, Life Without Plastic

Common Waste and Materials - Paper Recycling, Environmental Protection Agency

Container Recycling Institute, CRI’s mission is to make North America a global model for the collection and quality recycling of packaging materials

Aluminum Information 

Facts About Recycling Paper 

Lion’s Club Eyeglass Recycling Program 

Monument Waste, municipal waste collection in Grand County

How Many Times Can Something Be Recycled? 

Recycle Across America

Recycling Coalition of Utah, Utah’s recycling resource center for people, business and government 

Rocky Mountain Recycling, locations across Utah

Steel Recycling Institute - Main Page and Recycling Information Page 

Recycling Resources:
SLC Recycling Website
SL County and Curbside Services
SL County Hard to Recycle Items
Telluride Recycling
Common Plastics #1-#7 
CCR Other Things to Recycle
Types of plastics
USU Recycling Presentation