Recycling - How can we help at home?
Lowe's is invested in improving the health and sustainability of the communities we serve in partnership with our employees and our customers, we are committed to reducing waste in these communities through our recycling programs We are proud of the progress we did, and we will continue to look for ways to improve programs in our stores and other facilities.
As we improved our collection and tracking systems, we have almost doubled the number of wooden pallets, we recycled during the fifth year of our pallet recycling program throughout the country Our stores and centers distribution recycled more than 475,000 tons nearly 1 billion pounds of wood pallets and cardboard in 2010 we have also doubled the amount of shrink wrap and recycled plastic bags, we educated the public about our recycling efforts in stores.
To give our customers a variety of recycling options makers, we have expanded our product and Garden Center recycling programs with the purchase of a new appliance, Lowe's will carry away and recycle old client devices In addition, customers can now deposit plastic plant trays, pots and labels for recycling at any Lowe's Garden Center in the continental United States.
Lowe also made it easier for customers to make a difference by installing recycling centers in over 1,700 stores in the United States permanent recycling centers, located at the entrance of the store, offering a free, convenient and easy for customers to recycle rechargeable batteries, cell phones, CFLs CFLs and plastic bags Lowe's stores in Canada also feature recycling centers to ensure CFLs and batteries are recycled responsibly.
Since 2004, we have helped to maintain more than 1 million pounds of rechargeable batteries out of landfills through our participation shops in the Call2Recycle Lowe's program collected a company record 392,000 pounds of rechargeable batteries to customers in 2010 Lowe's stores in Atlanta , Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth hosted collection within the MyCall2Recycle Lowe s campaign drives helped the national campaign to bring more than 1 2 million pounds of rechargeable batteries between mid-July and October, exceeding the target of the campaign of 1 million pounds.
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