Tag It Tuesday! America Recycles!

Today is America Recycles Day, a day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and buy recycled products.  To show that recycling isn’t a load of rubbish, today’s Tag It Tuesday challenge is to tag our records related to recycling.

Tag our digitized recycling records here.  Here are a few of our favorites –

If disco wasn’t your thing in the seventies, maybe recycling was!

THE RECYCLING CENTER IN PARK SLOPE (BROOKLYN) HANDLES THREE TONS OF NEWSPAPERS PER WEEK. EARNINGS FROM RECYCLING PAY FOR A PROGRAM TO COMBAT DRUG ADDICTION, 04/1973 (NAID 549810)
Always remember to recycle your bottles after finishing an ice cold brew.
USED BEER BOTTLES ARE FED INTO GLASS CRUSHER FOR PULVERIZING THEY WILL BE COMPLETELY RECYCLED INTO NEW BOTTLES FOR COORS BREWERY. COLUMBINE GLASS COMPANY, 06/1972 (NAID 543706)
  One man’s trash is another man’s recyclables.
412_DSP_MunicipalRecycling_008, 08/14/2007 (NAID 5999879)
To learn more about America Recycles Day, visit americarecyclesday.org.
If you’ve been tagging interesting records we would love to hear from you.  Anything that you would like to see featured in Tag It Tuesday, let us know by leaving a comment or emailing us at search@nara.gov.

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