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Recycling posters

These posters have been designed to go with the A Guide to Implementing Recycling Systems in Multi-Tenanted Office Buildings.

The first one is an example of a poster that is in every kitchen area at MfE. It helps people to understand what item of waste is placed where and why.

Download "Our Office Waste - what to do with it and why" poster (PDF 1.2 MB).

The next posters contain some facts about recycling and have been designed to raise awareness of reasons why its good to recycle.

Download "The energy saved by recycling one can can run a lightbulb for 20 hours" poster (PDF 1.68 MB).

Download "Most of the waste generated in an office is paper" poster (PDF 1.85 MB).

Download "40% of all waste is organic material" poster (PDF 1.56 MB).

Download "Every New Zealander uses three trees per year for their paper needs" poster (PDF 1.85 MB).

Download "The average 100 person office uses about 1,000,000 sheets of copy paper per year. That is a stack nearly 20 floors high" poster (PDF 1.53 MB).

Download "13 recycled plastic bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket" poster (PDF 1.31 MB).

Download "For every tonne of paper we recycle..." poster (PDF 3.10 MB).

Download "The total amount of waste going to landfills in the Wellington region this year would fill the stadium twice" poster (PDF 1.36 MB).

Download "Recycling one glass wine bottle saves enough energy to light a 100 watt lightbulb for 4 hours" poster (PDF 1.05 MB).

Last updated: 19 June 2006