Highlights

You CAN reduce your trash this holiday season - NMRC Offers Simple Solutions to Help

Americans generate 4.43 pounds of trash per person per day (US EPA). If we isolate the holiday season, the daily average would be much higher, considering that Americans generate an additional five million tons of waste from Thanksgiving to New Years. Of that, four million tons come from shopping bags and wrapping paper alone (California Dept. of Resource Recycling & Recovery). Start off your holiday season on a green foot by making a few small changes. To help you get started, NMRC is providing New Mexicans with a simple list of steps the average resident can take to put the green back in the holidays. more

New Mexico is Home to Six New Recycling "Hubs"

Deming, Truth or Consequences, Gallup, Raton, Otero County and Torrance County are scheduled to open new recycling facilities this fall. Utilizing two pools of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding, the recycling hubs will accept household recyclables: cardboard, mixed paper, aluminum, tin cans, plastic #1 and #2 and mixed paper. Additional ARRA funding is providing collection equipment to surrounding areas or "spokes" that can feed into the recycling hubs. more

Paving New Mexico Roads with Recycled Tires

A new study by the New Mexico State University Civil Engineering Department finds roadways paved with asphalt concrete containing crumb rubber (produced from recycled tires), perform as well as or better than roads paved with conventional paving materials. See the full study at more

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What is the New Mexico Recycling Coalition?
Since 1991, the New Mexico Recycling Coalition has served as a resource to provide recycling information to professionals in the field, as well as to the general public. Our mission is to lead New Mexico to value waste as a resource. We serve as recycling advocates working with a diverse group of stakeholders, communities, businesses, schools and grassroots activists to help build sustainable and efficient recycling programs. more

Join the NM Recycling List-Serve

If you'd like to join the New Mexico Recycling List-Serve, please visit http://groups.google.com/group/new-mexico-recycling. Members can share recycling-related news, stories, questions, ideas, etc to over 500 individuals working within the recycling field by sending an email to new-mexico-recycling@googlegroups.com