Learn More About Recycling
This page has articles, videos and links from other sites that you can use to learn about recycling. Please feel free to read, share and use them.
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) also provides information and resources for Montanans wishing to participate in recycling programs. They cover many recycling subject areas on their website:
https://deq.mt.gov/twr/Programs/recycling
GLASS
Products made from Recycled Glass
See the glass recycling process (includes video)
https://www.bottlestore.com/whatandhowtorecycle
ELECTRONICS
The Insider Scoop on Recycling Cell Phones
Journey of a Recycled Cell Phone
How to Recycle Cell Phones, Tablets, and iPads
UPCYCLING
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic value or environmental value.
Type in “upcycling” in your browser and find hundreds of craft and project ideas.
Upcycled Clothing Is Trending in 2022, Both for Consumers and Brands
5 DIYs to upcycle your clothing: YouTube Videos
SCHOOL
How to Improve Recycling and Reduce Waste in Your School
PRECYCLING
Precycling is the practice of reducing waste by attempting to avoid buying items which will generate waste into home or business. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also cites that precycling is the preferred method of integrated solid waste management because it cuts waste at its source and therefore trash is eliminated before it is created.
Beyond the Basics: Recycling, Downcycling, Upcycling and Precycling
Did You Know…
Although recycling is a common practice now, the concept of recycling has been around for thousands of years. Long before recycling was the production it is today, recycling as an idea was something that households carried out to conserve and reuse materials because goods could not be made as quickly and cheaply before the industrial revolution.