Green Solutions Recycling LLC

Green Solutions Recycling LLC is your commercial recycling alternative to national waste collection companies. Green Solutions Recycling (GSR) is locally owned, operated and heavily involved in LOCAL recycling efforts.

• We’re locally owned and operated and generally 30% less expensive than competitors.
• We have 4 & 6 yard containers available for your business. Located on site and emptied as needed. The product is sorted and recycled right here in the Truckee Meadows.
• We customize the recycle program to meet client needs and we modify when necessary with no penalty to our client. We use the U.S. and International Commodities market to return our recyclables into the economy.

Our Mission

Green Solutions Recycling is a locally owned and operated company, utilizing a local transfer/recycling center that employs a 24 person sort line.

Interesting Recycling Facts / Paper

• Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4000 kilowatt hours of electricity. This is enough energy to power the average American home for 5 months.
• The process of recycling paper instead of making it from new materials generates 74 percent less air pollution and uses 50 percent less water.
• Manufacturing recycled paper uses 60 percent of the energy needed to make paper from new materials.
• Over 73 percent of all newspapers are recovered for recycling. About 33 percent of this is used to make newsprint the rest is used to make paperboard, tissue, or insulation.
• A little more than 48 percent of all office paper is recycled. This is used to make writing papers, paperboard, tissue, and insulation.

Interesting Recycling Facts / Metal

• Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 percent of the energy used to make them.
• Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
• Americans throw out enough iron and steel to continuously supply all the auto makers in the entire nation.
• A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces water pollution, air pollution, and mining waste by about 70 percent.
• When you throw away an aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the can half full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.
• Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans each day.
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, and a TV for 2 hours.

Interesting Recycling Facts / Plastic

• Enough plastic is produced in the United States each year to shrink wrap Texas.
• In 1998 Americans used 2 billion pounds of HDPE to make plastic bottles for household products. That’s the equivalent weight of 90,000 Honda civics.
• Approximately 88 percent of the energy is saved when plastic is made from plastic rather than from the raw materials of gas and oil.
• Enough plastic bottles are thrown away in the United States each year to circle the Earth four times.

General Facts About Recycling

• On average, 10-15% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ultimately ends up as garbage.
• Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled.
• It costs about $30 per ton to recycle garbage, $50 to transport it to a landfill, and $70 to incinerate it.
• Recycling creates 1.1 million U.S. jobs and $37 billion in annual payrolls.
• The average household throws away 13,000 pieces of paper every year which is mostly junk mail and packaging.
• In the United States landfills are responsible for approximately 36% of all methane emissions. Methane is a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.
• Yard trimmings make up 20% of the solid waste in US. Less than one quarter of this amount is recovered for composting.
• More than half of the MSW (municiple solid waste) that ends up in a landfill is highly recyclable material.