Planet Alameda ::: Your Island City's Environmental Resource Guide for a Healthy Planet

Welcome to Planet Alameda! A fun, friendly and educational website designed to help Alamedans of all ages better understand what we can all do to help protect our environment. We invite you to explore this website and learn what you can do at home, work or school to reduce, reuse, recycle and rot. Remember that what you can save today won’t end up in a landfill tomorrow. Working together, we can meet Alameda’s “Zero Waste” goal of reducing community-wide greenhouse gas emissions to 25 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2020.

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Recycling just makes sense on a number of levels.
Consider the differences recycling can make if we all do our part.

Recycling saves money.
Many products made from recycled materials cost less to produce and those savings can be passed on to consumers. Recycling also reduces the number of tax dollars spent to create and maintain landfills.

Recycling creates jobs.
What started out as a small business now accounts for thousands of jobs and billions in products and services throughout California. Many high quality products, everything from glassware to computer mouse pads to picnic tables, are made from recycled materials. You can help support recycling by looking for products made form recycled materials.

Recycling saves energy.
A great deal of energy is required to create new products or packaging. Producing aluminum cans, for instance, requires 95 percent less energy using recycled aluminum than it does to create cans with the same amount of new metal.

Recycling saves natural resources.
The more we recycle, the fewer trees we need to cut down and fewer mines we need to dig. Something future generations of Californians will grow to appreciate.