Weekly

Assignment - What can I do

with this junk?
Dont throw that pop can away! There are many uses for materials that we think are garbage.
Numerous opportunities exist for recycling various products in the London area or in your home
town. Choose 10 items off this list and answer three questions about each item:
Your name:

Jennifer Dunlop

#0710333

Item 1: Tires
Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

City of London Solid Waste Depots

- drop-off depot for residential use recycling

519-661-4570

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

W12A Landfill Site

3502 Manning Drive
E-mail: es@london.ca
Pour-in-place surfacing for playgrounds, water
parks, walkways and sports tracks.

How much money could I make?

No charge, no money made.

What might it be turned into?

If any, by recycling this item?

Item 2: Baby Clothes

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

What might it be turned into?

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

If any, by recycling this item?

Once Upon a Child

- Buy and sells used baby and childrens
clothing.
1070 Wellington Road S, #8
London, ON N6E 3V8
519-680-3738
Other children and babies wearing the
clothing. Can also make quilts, blankets,
pillows, and stuffed animals.
Price varies by product, approximately $2-$5
per item.

Item 3: Leftover Food

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

No business of organization required.

- Can save leftovers for lunch the next
day
- Can go for a walk and give leftovers to
a homeless person. (Whenever I have
leftovers from a restaurant I take them

to go and find a homeless person to

give them too, it is very effective)
What might it be turned into?

A meal for someone else who is in need.

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

Nothing, goodness of your own heart!

If any, by recycling this item?

Item 4: Milk Bags

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

What might it be turned into?

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

If any, by recycling this item?

Canadian Food for Children Warehouse

1258 Lakeshore Rd. E. Mississauga, Ontario.
L5E 3B8 (905) 274-9239
- Turns milk bags into mats for children and
families in third world countries that cannot
afford such luxuries.
Mat, bag (could be a reusable shopping bag),
or a basket
Nothing. Charity work for other countries or
personal use.

Item 5: An artificial Christmas tree

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

What might it be turned into?

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

The Salvation Army Thrift Store

- Takes donations from the community and re
sells them for cheap to people in need.
Sometimes gives them away for no charge.
1960 Dundas Street
N5V 1P5 London , ON
Phone: 519-451-0178
Can be turned into Christmas wreaths,
garland, Christmas urns, or if in good condition
remain a tree.
Donation

If any, by recycling this item?

Item 6: Wine and Beers Bottles

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

Bag it Back Program

The Beer Store
- will buy back empty bottles and cans
250 Piccadilly Street
London, ON N6A 1S4
(519) 439-6461
LCBO
85 WELLINGTON ROAD

LONDON N6C 4M7

519-433-3479
What might it be turned into?
After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

If any, by recycling this item?

Could turn beer bottles into patio lights, wine

bottles into a vase for flowers.
10 - Containers less than or equal to 630mL
20 - Containers over 630mL

Item 7: 15 Year-Old Pick-up Truck

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

What might it be turned into?

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

If any, by recycling this item?

John Zubick Limited - has been converting

waste metals and materials into useful
commodities in London, Ontario since 1946.
John Zubick Limited
Scrap Metals
105 Clarke Road
London, Ontario
Canada N5W 5C9 (226) 212-0334
Scrap metal turned into a sculpture or art
project.
A service fee of $10.00 is charged for each
vehicle with a fuel tank still attached.

Item 8: 36 Hardy Boys books

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

What might it be turned into?

Goodwill bookstore and donation centre

- book donation drop off, they will give books
to those in need.
Address: 1044 Adelaide St N, London, ON
N5Y 2N1
Phone:(519) 433-2665
Art project, others can read them.

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

Donation

If any, by recycling this item?

Item 9: Broken Dishes

Where can I recycle it?

Not Applicable

(Name of business or organization and description

of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

What might it be turned into?

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

Donate to art programs or for personal project.

Could create mosaic artwork, a sculpture,
hand made jewelry, picture frame.

How much money could I make?

Depends if you plan to sell your art work.

If any, by recycling this item?

Item 10: Cardboard Cutouts

Where can I recycle it?
(Name of business or organization and description
of what they do, including their contact info, phone
number or email address)

What might it be turned into?

After it is recycled or how might it get a second life?

How much money could I make?

London Curbside Recycling

Phone: 519-661-4570
E-mail: es@london.ca
Could cut up Sponge Bob and recycle into
curbside box OR donate to a high school arts
program for students to re-paint (maybe use
for an event like prom for face in a hole)
Donation, Nothing

If any, by recycling this item?

Choose 10 of the following items (any 10 you wish!) and answer the above 3 questions about
each.

Tires from a car

Pop cans (coke, 7-up, etc)
Baby clothes
Leftover food from a big dinner party you had with your family
Old car parts made out of metal
Milk bags (colourful bag that holds smaller bags of milk in it at the supermarket)
Cereal boxes (and you eat a lot of cereal)
Windows that you replaced in your house.
Broken dishes
Cereal waste from Kelloggs factory (the food stuff left over after they make the cereal)
A pick-up truck that is 15 years old and makes a lot of noise when it goes down the
street. It is embarrassing driving it and you just want to get rid of it and buy a new one!
Leaves that have fallen all over your yard in the autumn.
An artificial Christmas tree
Jewellery from your Great-Aunt Dorothy that just isnt your style
Beer and wine bottles from a small (O.K., perhaps it was large) party to celebrate the
end of this class in December
Collection of cardboard cutouts of Sponge Bob Square Pants that are all over your
apartment. Your friends laugh at them every time they come over!
36 Hardy Boys books that used to belong to your Dad (wow, those must be really old
books!)

Be creative in how you decide to recycle these items. Research the various organizations in
your area that would be happy to find a new use for these items. Can you recycle, make money
and be socially responsible at the same time?
Post in the drop box by due date on the calendar. Have fun with this project. Make sure your
report includes your name. List each of the 10 items and then answer the questions for each.