Things you can do to reduce trash
- Recycle at home
Your city or county has developed some good programs to make it easy for you to recycle. Make sure you know the proper way to recycle in your community.
- Grasscycle
Mow without a bag and leave your grass clipping on your lawn to provide mulch and nutrients, save water and time!
- Compost in your backyard
If you prefer to mow with a bag use your clippings along with food scraps to create compost
- Hardscape
Landscape with plants that don't require much water. Mowing, watering and fertilizing chores take less time and money and yard waste is minimized.
- Reduce household waste
Find a home for unneeded items, give them to a charity or have a yard sale. But in bulk and eat your leftovers, use cloth bags at the grocery store instead of paper or plastic. Avoid over package products
- Join the paperless society
Use E-mail. Send electronic greetings for special events and you can save time and money. Remove your mailing address from junk mail list
- Do no harm
It is illegal to put used oil and hazardous household products such as pesticides, paints or gasoline into your family trash. Dumping them on the ground or into the storm drain is illegal and harms the environment
- Use re-refined oil
The State requires re-refined oil in its vehicles, including Highway Patrol cars. High performance race cars use re-refined oil and win. You can too!
- Buy recycled
Earth's resources are too precious to waste. For recycling to succeed we all need to check the labels and buy products made with recycled content
- Recycling printer toner cartridges
Toner cartridges often come with pre-paid shipping labels. When installaing a new toner cartridge, place the used cartridge into the original packaging, affix the pre-paid label, and drop it into your outgoing mail bag.Toner cartridges without pre-paid shipping labels can be picked-up by EH&S for recycling/disposal when the department has collected at least 5-cartridges. Contact EH&S at 559-278-7422 or email Michael Burgess at montibank@csufresno.edu. Toner cartridges can also be dropped off to EH&S located at Lab School Room 125.
- Bottled water is wasteful
Each year Americans dispose of 38 billion water bottles (billions of dollars worth of plastic) in landfills. Although water bottles are made of recyclable PET (polyethylene terephalate), the recycling rate for PE is only 23%.
