“Ruidoso Post Office Offers Lobby Recycling”

The Ruidoso Post Offices – Main and Hollywood Station - have joined Post Offices in Capitan, Alto and Ruidoso Downs in providing recycling containers in lobby areas for use by local postal patrons in the U.S. Post Office “read, respond, and recycle” program. The main Ruidoso Post Office, the largest of 14 current post offices in Lincoln County, is expected to see the largest volume participation the region of discarded junk mail, magazines, mail order catalogs, newspapers, and miscellaneous paper. Ruidoso’

“Lobby recycling helps divert paper waste from landfills” stated a Post Office official. Secure recycling bins in the Post Office lobby are locked and the opening is slim –– about the width of a magazine, so the mail, and customer privacy, are ensured. P.O. Box customers are encouraged to open their mail (read), take whatever action is necessary (respond) and place the rest of it in the bin (recycle). Postal customers are being encouraged to “read, respond, recycle” their P.O. Box mail in Post Office lobbies as a convenient and environmentally responsible alternative to taking it home to discard.

As recently as 2009, the U.S. Post office was recycling more than 200,000 tons of paper and counting, of paper, plastics and other waste. The recycling containers in the Ruidoso Post Offices are for recycling paper of all kinds and paperboard only.

For more information on plastics recycling, contact the Ruidoso Post office or the Solid Waste Authority office at 378-4697; toll free at 1-877-548-8772 or via email at gswa@greentreeswa.org.