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Recycling Makes $ense

Recycling in your business can affect your bottom line

Recycling paper and cardboard will reduce the amount of waste that your business disposes.

Reducing the size of your waste dumpster, or by decreasing the number of times that dumpster is serviced, can save money.

Reducing the amount of paper and cardboard that goes into a landfill saves natural resources and protects the environment.

Recycling, instead of disposing, and buying recycled content materials supports the recycling system.

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Material Exchange

The underlying principle of a waste exchange is that "...one person's trash is another person's treasure."

There are exchanges within Ohio that assist businesses in finding materials that are needed or finding outlets for materials that they need to dispose of. Instead of these materials just going to a landfill, they are exchanged through a network of businesses.

For more information on these exchanges please visit the following sites:

Bowling Green Orphan Chemical Recycling Program
165 College Park Office Building
Bowling Green, OH
419-372-2173
fax: 419-372-2194
Email: daveh@bgnet.bgsu.edu
: Mahoning Valley Materials Exchange
www.mvme.org; Marcia Barr; One University Plaza; Youngstown, OH 44555; 330-941-2742; fax: 330-941-1542
Email: certt@eng.ysu.edu

Ohio's Material Exchange (OMex)
www.aor-omex.org
Diane Shew
PO Box 70
Mt. Vernon, OH 43050
888-718-6639
Fax: 740-397-7649
Email: tryomex@aor-omex.org

Or Contact:

Christy Kellner at (513) 946-7732 or go to http://www.hcdoes.org/sw/interchange.htm for Hamilton County's Interchange

Other Helpful Business Links

U.S. Green Building Council www.usgbc.org

Ohio State fact sheet on business recycling http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/0184.html

Market prices of recycled commodities http://grn.com/grn/prices/rm-prices.htm

Links to U.S. and Ohio Regulations
ORC Ohio Revised Code	US DOT US Department of Transportation
OAC Ohio Administrative Code	ODNR Ohio Department of Natural Resources
FCR Federal Code of Regulations	PUCO Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
OEPA Ohio Environmental Protection Agency	OSHA Occupational Health & Safety Admin.
US EPA US Environmental Protection Agency ECHO State & Federal Compliance Reports	ODOD Ohio Department of Development
ODOT Ohio Department of Transportation	US DOE US Department of Energy