What do plastic bottles, old paint, cell phones and manure have in common?
You guessed it—they can all be recycled! And here at The Toledo Zoo, that’s just what we’re doing. In fact, we not only recycle these items, we recycle just about everything that can be recycled. Over the years, The Toledo Zoo’s recycling program has grown from sending plastic and glass bottles to the recycling bin to doing as much as we can to limit our impact on our landfills. Currently the Zoo sends out much of our waste to be recycled; however, we also reuse and recycle many items right here in-house. For example, trees that are cut down are chipped into mulch for use in our flower beds. Elephant manure is composted to make organic fertilizer. We often save money through recycling, and the Zoo sometimes even makes money recycling items, such as cell phones. The money we receive can then be put toward recycling items that actually cost money to recycle, such as batteries. And by recycling batteries, we’re able to keep more toxic chemicals out of landfills. If you’d like to help, sim
