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Residential recycling report
With convenient "at your door" recycling available to all homes, Winnipeggers have diverted over 508,000 tonnes of material from the City’s landfill since 1995. The amount we're recycling is going up.

Tonnes of material recycled from depot, blue box and apartment recycling programs

	First quarter (January - March)	Second quarter (April - June)	Third quarter (July - September)	Fourth quarter (October - December)	Yearly total (tonnes of material recycled)
2011	10,694	11,987	11,276	n/a	33,957
2010	10,315	12,253	11,927	12,401	46,896
2009	10,094	11,790	11,110	11,381	44,375
2008	10,027	12,170	11,713	11,650	45,560
2007	9,688	11,681	10,681	11,807	43,857
2006	9,615	11,189	10,237	11,164	42,205
2005	9,478	11,291	10,353	11,041	42,163
2004	9,124	10,900	10,224	10,629	40,877
2003	8,090	9,430	8,934	9,769	36,223
2002	6,918	8,979	8,184	8,900	32,981
2001	6,259	7,513	6,638	8,102	28,512
2000	5,492	6,288	5,850	6,365	23,995
1999	5,506	6,434	5,568	6,007	23,515
1998	5,460	6,372	5,637	6,169	23,638
1997	4,950	6,296	5,700	6,197	23,143

This shows how much Winnipeggers have been recycling since 1997.

• The blue box program was phased in across the city from the fall of 1995 to the spring of 1996.
• 1997 was the first full year of recycling for single-family dwellings.
• In November 2001, on-site recycling collection was made available to all multi-family dwellings, including apartments, condominiums and townhouses.
• In September 2003, recycling became easier than ever. The list of recyclable items was expanded to include all plastic containers with a recycling triangle on the bottom of the container. And no more sorting. Cans, bottles, jars, containers, papers, magazines and cardboard can be tossed right into blue boxes and recycling bins.

Even though Winnipeg is recycling more, there is still a lot of material that we aren't recycling. For example, more than one million dollars worth of aluminum cans is going to the landfill each year.

Why should we recycle?
Recycling is good for Winnipeg and good for our environment. The more we recycle:

• The less garbage we throw out.
  Less garbage means lower costs to collect garbage, and this could save you money on your property taxes.
• The more energy we save.
  Making goods from recycled materials usually requires less energy than making goods from raw materials.
• The more trees we leave standing in our forests.
  Every metric tonne of paper we recycle saves 17 trees from being cut down.
• The less our programs cost.
  Increased revenue from the sale of recyclables, and lower garbage collection costs, reduces the amount of property taxes needed to fund the recycling program.

Keep up the good work Winnipeg!

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