Tips to reduce the clutter in your spring cleaning

Dear Eartha,

Earth Day was last Saturday, and made me think of all the waste that accumulate in the home. Is it difficult to recycle local programs?

- Meaghan, Copper Mountain

I personally love this Earth Day coincides with the time of year when most people refer to spring cleaning. With the imminent arrival of baby Steward, our house has been hard at work cleaning the garage, attic and another area that could use a good clean up. And look, while all our neighbors. Instead of these items in the landfill addition, there are programs that exist in our region, which will allow us to recycle products that can not be recycled normally.

First, consider the term "Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycling." Try to take this action before to end the clutter in your home. But if you get the following resources will help you get rid of your extra business blameless have to get rid of products:

• The shoes are in fair condition, vertical paths or twisted Runner Breckenridge to be taken in the northeast. Two stores chic shoes used for markets in other parts of the world where they are reused.

• unwanted or old skis, snowboards or ski boots or they can be sent or recycled. Sports in Frisco considered their items recycled and sold them in your business if the quality is high. Otherwise, you can bring Sport for recycling these items in Breckenridge.

• Gasoline lawn mowers help keep cutting their lawns Americans, but also burn gas 800 million gallons per year. The EPA estimates that more than 17 million liters of fuel spilled refueled garden equipment. That's spilled more than all the oil from the Exxon Valdez.

To check an impact on the health of the environment, recycling your lawn mower gas and replaced by a manual or electric model. Currently, the program offers Pollution acribillar incentives for your old gas mower recycling.

Join them in advance MowDownPollution.org and can recycle the lawn mower is Saturday, Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, May 6 at Dick Sporting Goods Park in Denver or 3 June at Roca Installation CHARM eco cycle. Once registered, you will be entitled to the purchase of a new electric mower to discounts. Or better yet, get a lawn mower with a carbon neutral one.

• Car seats for babies and children have an outlet for the recycling of now thanks to a new partnership between the target and Terra. If you have an old car seat for baby or child, no matter what state or a brand, you can take it to the finish line Saturday. In return, the goal will give you a discount of 20 percent for a new car seat. Terra recycling of all car seats collected.

• Refrigerators you can earn some money if you are a customer of Xcel Energy. If you have an old refrigerator at 10 to 30 cubic feet, which are still functional, Xcel comes to your home and pick it up for recycling - no need for you to remove the refrigerant. About four weeks later Xcel will send a $ 50 discount to recycle only for your fridge. Pretty cool to pay to recycle!

• Finally, resource allocation Summit County Park is a one-stop shop of many of its products to get rid of difficult to recycle. Scrap takes many elements, including fluorescent lamps and compact fluorescent lamps, electronics, paints, varnishes, other household hazardous waste, tires, scrap metal and appliances (refrigerators and also how the freon is removed).

While many articles are free to recycle with proof of residence in some cases, you will have to pay a fee. To know the best way if something is recyclable and when to call the cost before the Conservation Center at 970-668-5703 High Sierra Keystone. HC3 uses directly for Summit County recycling line and his team of experts who will answer you in the right direction and your questions It Recycling may not be easy, but can be recycled almost anything in any way.

Good luck with spring cleaning, and we thank you for recycling.

Ask Eartha Steward is on the staff of the High Country Conservation Center, a nonprofit organization that wrote to waste prevention and resource conservation. Send questions to Eartha info@highcountryconservation.org .

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