🔥 Rechargeable Batteries = Fire Risk 🔥 Rechargeable batteries can spark, overheat, or explode when crushed or damaged—making them extremely dangerous in recycling carts and trash bins. 🚫 Do NOT put rechargeable batteries in your trash or recycling. 🔋 Lithium batteries are commonly found in phones, laptops, power tools, toys, and many everyday electronics. 📍…

✅ Keep recycling clean. ✅ Keep recycling green. ❌ Don’t contaminate. ➡️ Contamination happens when the wrong items—or the right items prepared incorrectly, like recyclables placed inside plastic bags—end up in the MIXED RECYCLING carts. 👉 Follow the rules, and help us recycle more and save money! 🔎 Visit rirrc.org/az-search and use the RI Recycling…

♻️What is a Circular Economy? 👉 According to the EPA, a circular economy: ➡️ Keeps materials and products in circulation for as long as possible ➡️ Reduces material use ➡️ Redesigns materials and products to be less resource intensive ➡️ Recaptures “waste” as a resource to manufacture new materials and products #CircularEconomy #BetterForThePlanet https://www.epa.gov/circulareconomy

🤔🔎 When it doubt, search it out! 👉 Our RI Recycling & Disposal Guide can help you when you don’t know the correct disposal method for an item. 🗑️♻️From aerosol cans to zip-top bags, look up any item and get clear answers on how to recycle (or safely dispose of) it in Rhode Island. Visit…

Your recycling cart is ONLY for these items: 📄 Paper, 📦 Cardboard & Cartons, 🥫 Metal Cans, Lids & Foil, 🍾 Glass Bottles & Jars, and 🧴 Plastic Containers ♻️ That’s it, nothing else #RecycleRI #WhatIsInYourCart

➡️ In 2024, RI’s Central Landfill received 1,800 tons of TRASH EACH DAY, OR the equivalent of 360 Monster Trucks! 🛻 🚚 🚛 #RecyclingMatters

🍃Backyard Composting: Turn Scraps Into Soil 🟤 Carbon-Rich Browns: 🥬Fall leaves & straw 🪵Twigs & untreated wood chips/shavings 📦Shredded cardboard – (no wax coating/tape/glue) 📰Shredded newspaper & brown bags 🟢 Nitrogen-Rich Greens: 🥀Grass clippings & garden trimmings – (no weeds with seeds) 🍎 Fruits & veggie scraps – (no produce stickers) 🥚 Egg Shells –…

✅ The most sustainable choice is avoiding waste in the first place. 👉 Reducing your consumption means fewer resources used, greater support for a circular economy, and a smaller impact on the planet. Waste Management Hierarchy: ⬇️Reduce: Buy less and look for better quality and longer lasting products. 👍Reuse: Repair broken items, repurpose for longer…