Did you know that Mapleton Utah has a Recycling Program? Mapleton City does Not have a city run program, however a Great Mapleton Family has stepped up to the challenge. Roger and Lana Merrell and their wonderful family have started their own, family run recycling program for Mapleton Residents, called Merrell Recycling. They have been providing recycling services for several years now, however a lot of Mapleton residents may not know about them.
When my Wife Laura and I moved to Mapleton years ago, we called the Mapleton City offices and asked if there was a recycling program in Mapleton. We were actually told, “No”. (They did not mention Merrell Recycling as an alternative?) We later found out about Merrell Recycling while figuring out how we were going to recycle (We moved from Washington, and they have extensive environmental protection programs up there, and they have great curbside Recycling Programs, so living without recycling was not an option for us).
Just one thorough look through your weekly trash, would reveal that Most of what you throw away each day is recyclable or compostable. If you are throwing everything in your trash can, I’m sorry to say, but you are doing your part to destroy our planet at an accelerated rate. If everyone just took and wasted our natural resources that way, our planet would be in far worse peril than it already is. Without drastic steps to correct our years of taking and wasting of our planets resources, our children and their children face a grave, polluted and unhealthy future.
I’m sorry if that sounds doom and gloom, but I am very passionate about leaving the planet a better place when we leave it, and not leaving a wake of waste and destruction expecting “Others will take care of it”. It’s pretty simple math really, if the Billions and Billions of people on this planet EACH generate “Approximately 1,500lbs of trash each year” (Src. EPA), and the resources are not recycled, reused, or replenished, then it can easily be over 4 Trillion Tons of trash each year! Our Planet cannot continue to supply us with the resources for that kind of waste.
According to the EPA’s “What’s in our Trash?” this is what is in the average “trash”:
(National Averages Shown)
38% Paper
8% Metals
8% Plastic
7% Glass
7% Food Waste
18% Yard Trimmings
14% Other
In Mapleton, with the Merrell Recycling program and the Free Yard Waste Recycling available, you could then conceivably recycle about 80% of what you throw away. (100% - 7% glass, - 14% Other = 79%). Now assuming some of that “Other” includes electronics that can be reused or recycled and Motor Oil that can be recycled at your local Auto Parts store, that number could be higher than 80%. additionally there are glass recycling locations in Salt Lake County and up in Park City. So you could add another 7% to that recycling total if you just saved your glass recyling (I save mine in a box in my garage) and then just bring it with you when you were already going up to the Salt Lake area or Park City area for a nice day anyways.
I have created an entire page on our Mapleton Real Estate Website about Merrell Recycling. For more information and to get signed up visit: www.MapletonUtahHomes.com/MapletonRecycling
Thank You for doing your part to make our world a better place.
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