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COMMUNITY BENEFITS <br />The Environmental Protection Agency reports in 2010, that Americans generated about 250 <br />million tons of trash. The country recycled / composted over 85 million tons of this material, <br />which is equivalent to a 34.1 percent recycling rate.* With these types of numbers filling our <br />landfills, it is important our country focus on ways to reduce waste and increase recycling. <br />The environmental footprint specific to clothing and textiles is substantial. Americans throw <br />away a whopping 68 pounds of clothes on average each year, and we only buy 10 pounds of <br />recycled clothes annually.** <br />The good news is that reclaiming clothing and textiles for reuse and recycling saves a <br />staggering amount of energy and natural resources. Some studies of this recycling process <br />show remanufacturing or reusing textiles saving up to 85 percent of the energy required to <br />produce the same product from virgin materials. <br />Specific to the Ramsey community, there are numerous advantages <br />0 Adding six jobs at the location initially <br />0 Longer term, an additional 3 jobs potentially added <br />0 Increasing the community's opportunity to recycle <br />0 Reducing the amount of material going into our landfills <br />0 Boosting traffic into the area to support neighboring businesses <br />0 Offering a convenient location in the community <br />0 Providing an efficient and easy drop off program right from the vehicle <br />0 Personal assistance for customers as they off- load their recycling <br />0 Improving the esthetics of an existing location that has been vacant <br />* http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw 2010 rev factsheet.edf <br />** http://earth911.com/news/2012/10/17/how-much-energy-water-saved-bv-recycling,/ <br />-7- <br />