Why Recycle?
Why Recycle?
Recycling is a smart and sustainable waste disposal solution for our community, our economy, and our natural resources. Depending on the commercial industry, the average organization can recycle 30-75% of their waste stream. So what are the benefits, why do it?
What does Recycling do for You?
- Convenience. The commercial single stream recycling at RedFish lets you throw all of your recyclables into one bin. No sorting.
- Preserves Our Planet for Future Generations. Build a cleaner and brighter future for you, your children, your children’s children …
- Save Energy. It takes less energy to process recycled material than to process virgin materials.
Your Business?
- Saves Money. Recycling costs less money to process than landfill fees, so you reduce your waste disposal costs by recycling more and throwing away less.
- Meets Compliance. With corporate initiatives to meet recycling standards and demands to be Landfill Free, recycling is becoming more and more important to your company and your company’s image.
- Efficiency. With the help of RedFish’s Waste Audit, your organization will have recommendations of how to simplify processes and systems to minimize your organization’s waste stream and be more productive.
Our Planet?
- Preserves Natural Resources. Reuse the materials that we’ve already extracted from the earth, leaving more room for outdoor recreation and less room for landfills.
- Reduces Landfill Waste and Toxins. Landfills are designed to bury our waste, not break it down.
- Reduce Landfill Waste. Recycling sends less to the landfill and extends the life of our municipal landfill space.
- Conserve Resources. When we recycle materials already extracted from the earth, we preserve trees, water, iron ore, coal and limestone.
Did you know that approximately 81 school buses worth of trash go to the Brownsville landfill each day?
Did you know that by the year 2040 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish?
Every day, U.S. businesses generate enough paper to encircle the Earth 20 times.
Ecology Action of Texas
The United States makes enough plastic film each year to shrink-wrap the state of Texas.
Ecology Action of Texas
Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
Ecology Action of Texas
About 900 tons of trash go to the Brownsville Landfill each day. Together, we can reduce the amount of trash going to landfills.
Ecology Action of Texas
Facts Continued...
Using the WARM model, if all of the 37.4 million tons of single-family recyclables were put back to productive use instead of lost to disposal, it would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 96 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, conserve an annual energy equivalent of 154 million barrels of oil, and achieve the equivalent of taking more than 20 million cars off U.S. highways. THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP | 2020 STATE OF CURBSIDE RECYCLING REPORT
Together, we can reduce the amount of trash going to landfills, keep our ocean clean, and provide a better and cleaner future for our children.
Our Service Area
Residential:
- Brownsville, TX
- Olmito, TX
- Rancho Viejo, TX
Residential Coming Soon:
- Los Fresnos, TX
- Lago, TX
- El Camino Angosto, TX
- San Benito, TX
- Harlingen, TX
- Las Palmas-Juarez, TX
- Le Feria North, TX
- Le Feria, TX
- Bixby, TX
- Mercedes, TX
- Weslaco, TX
- Midway North, TX
- Midway South, TX
- Donna, TX
- South Alamo, TX
- North Alamo, TX
- Alamo, TX
- San Juan, TX
- Pharr, TX
- Additional Surrounding Areas
Commercial:
- Brownsville, TX
- Los Fresnos, TX
- San Benito, TX
- Harlingen, TX
- La Feria, TX
- Mercedes, TX
- Weslaco, TX
- Donna, TX
