THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, December 25, 1994 TAG: 9412230100
SECTION: HOME PAGE: G3 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: AROUND THE HOUSE
SOURCE: BY MARY FLACHSENHAAR
LENGTH: Short : 47 lines
IF YOU ARE standing knee-deep in a sea of wrapping paper, cardboard boxes and foam packaging, don't put them in the garbage. Recycle them.
There are plenty of local recycling centers that will take all of those products. You can also recycle wrapping paper and gift boxes in your own household, if you unwrap carefully. Understandably, not everyone can do this on Christmas morning.
Corrugated cardboard: The heavy-duty, double-layered cardboard with ribbing in the middle is recyclable at the following drop-off centers. (SPSA trucks are not equipped to take cardboard at their curbside pickup.)
Chesapeake - the Civic Center and Great Bridge Middle School South.
Norfolk - the Government Avenue Recycling Center, Maury High School and Janaf Shopping Center.
Portsmouth - the Cedar Lane Fire Station.
Suffolk - Main Street drop off near the railroad tracks and the Municipal Center.
Virginia Beach - the Social Services Building on Virginia Beach Boulevard, Mount Trashmore, the Virginia Beach Pavilion and 76 public schools.
Other cardboard and wrapping paper: Some recycling companies will take the thinner cardboard boxes that are used to package a shirt or tie. Along with those two types of cardboard, the following three will take Christmas wrapping paper (remove the bows, please). Consult The Yellow Pages under Recycling Centers for more listings but make sure to call ahead to see what materials are accepted.
- Atlantic Paper Stock, 1832 Church St., Norfolk.
- Butler Paper Co. Inc., 324 Newport St., Suffolk
- Tidewater Fibre Corp., 1958 Diamond Hill Road, Chesapeake
Polystyrene foam packaging: RADVA Corp., 2211 Elliott Ave., Portsmouth, accepts polystyrene foam packaging, in large pieces like those that cushion a TV and in peanut-size pieces.
Many packaging services will recycle foam peanuts. To find the location nearest you, call the Plastic Loosefill Products Council in Michigan at (800) 828-2214. by CNB