Pick 5

As they do over on facebook, I figured I would do a pick five for recycling. Only it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to post on facebook my five least favorite things to find in the recycling, so… here they are.

5 Least Favorite Things to Find in the Recycling
1. Pasta Salad
2. Coffee cups (with coffee)
3. Rotten fruit
4. Rita’s cups (with Rita’s)
5. Sandwiches

5 Least Favorite Recycling Smells
1. Stale beer
2. V8 juice
3. Rotten fruit
4. Milk, ice cream or yoghurt after several days
5. Cola (especially after it gets in your clothes)

5 Awesome Things to Find in the Recycling
In order of frequency, with 1 being the most frequent
1. Books you’ve always wanted
2. Things you’ve been looking for (milk crates, furniture, vases)
3. Money (it happens)
4. Empty and rinsed bottles and cans
5. Treasure maps

5 Dangers of Recycling
1. Broken glass
2. Falling in the dumpster
3. Getting hit in the head (by doors and recycling bin lids)
4. Mosquito bites and bee stings
5. Back strain (heavy bags of paper)

5 Awesome Numbers
1. 24,576.6 lbs (12.3 tons)- the amount of recycling collected at Washington College in the 2008-09 school year
2. 95%- the amount related air pollution cut by making cans from recycled aluminum
3. 102- the number of trees saved by campus recycling during the 2008-09 school year
4. ¼- the amount of energy saved by recycling cardboard from the energy used to manufacture it
5. 1874- the year of the nation’s first curbside recycling- in Baltimore, MD