Earth Day is marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes. Climate change becomes more evident each year, which means we need to double down our efforts to make a difference in our local communities – and around the world!

RRRASOC offers a variety of different resources when it comes to managing your waste – whether it’s finding your collection provider or learning how to prepare your items for an HHW event, you’ll find all the information you need at RRRASOC.org! Find out how you can observe Earth Day by utilizing the following helpful tools and pages:

Take Earth Day as an opportunity to improve your recycling habits and familiarize yourself with what can be recycled in your community. By taking a look at our Recycling Guidelines or Recycling Directory, you’ll find information dedicated to recycling many types of items, including clothing, electronics, and more!

By observing Earth Day in your workplace and creating a plan to reduce waste, it will not only become more Earth friendly, but also help save a significant amount of money in the long run! Visit our Business Recycling page to see the steps you can take on April 22 (or now!) to create a greener workspace.

Reduce - Through waste reduction and prevention, you can use less material to get a job done. One of the easiest ways to reduce waste is by cutting back on what you consume daily, including energy, water, and solid waste. Learn how to watch what you buy with our easy guidelines here.

Reuse - By reusing products and packaging, it prolongs the useful life of materials, thus delaying final disposal or recycling. This can include getting creative and reusing what you already have for new, innovative purposes or donating your gently used items to a local charity. For ideas and charity locations, click here.

We love to share recycling facts and figures with our member communities, and on Earth Day, you should too! The benefits that come with recycling are endless: it reduces air and water pollution, creates jobs, saves on natural resources, and so much more. You can view more recycling facts here. To see our full library of informative resources, click here!

After the eggs have been found and baskets dispersed, you may be finding that this holiday can generate quite a bit of waste. Foil wrappers, egg cartons, plastic eggs, and decorations: how should they be handled once the festivities are over? We've compiled a short list of common Easter items and how you can dispose of them properly on this fun-filled holiday.

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*The T-shirt icon indicates an HHW Collection Event in which clothing, shoes, accessories, and small household items will be accepted by Simple Recycling.

To learn more about this year's HHW events and how to prepare your items, please visit our HHW page.

If you have HHW that you'd like to properly dispose of between collection events, you're in luck! Drop off your HHW without a fee at ERG Environmental Services during the following hours:

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

HHW pickup from your home is also available for a fee of $135 per stop plus $0.75 per pound of material collected. This fee is paid directly by the resident to ERG Environmental Services.

ERG Environmental Services

13040 Merriman Road, Livonia

(734) 437-9650

For more info, visit the ERG HHW Drop-Off page or our HHW page.

Want more tips, tricks, and updates about recycling? We have a Facebook page where we can reach you daily to make recycling easier. Not only that, but you can reach us too - send us a message or comment on one of our posts today!

Not sure what to do with stuff?

Visit rrrasoc.org and use the Recycling Directory search bar to type in keywords and get recycling, composting, reuse or disposal instructions.

The searchable, intuitive format of the Recycling Directory provides RRRASOC specific information.

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