[Video of a street messy with garbage bags and old style recycle bins]
Announcer: Are you tired of your street looking like a dump on recycle day?
[Video of a frustrated lady sorting recyclables into red, white, and blue recycle bins]
Feeling a little frustrated about having to sort out all your recyclables into red, white, and blue bins?
[Video of a man confused at the curb]
And how about having to remember which week is recycle week?
There is an answer.
[Video of three ladies taking recycling carts to curb]
Welcome to the new Enhanced Recycling Program, the single cart recycling system.
[Video of Republic truck arm picking up recycling cart and dumping its contents into the truck]
It will be a far more convenient process for normal trash disposal and recyclable pickup than ever before.
[Video of Earth with green recycling logo next to it]
Now we all know that recycling is great for our planet. It saved energy and created jobs. In fact, 36 jobs are created for every 10,000 tons of material processed processed.
[Video of cola can next to the Las Vegas strip]
By recycling just aluminum cans, we save enough energy to light the entire City of Las Vegas for two years.
[Video of newspapers, forest trees, and cut trees]
And, if all the newspapers in the U.S. were recycled, we'd save 250 million trees a year. Amazing isn't it?
[Video of Earth with Republic Logo on it, with a green recycling logo next to it]
So get on the bandwagon. Do something terrific: recycle.
Elizabeth Guerrero, a Red Rock CC resident: "I never recycled before because it was such a hassle to recycle, but this is a great system. I love it! I love the bins. It makes it easier and more convenient."
Gary Dole, a Red Rock CC resident: "It's not that I was terrible discouraged by the old system, it's the fact that it was a little bit difficult to use and difficult to recycle in the manner that I would like to. You had to sort everything, you had to put it in the bins. The bins went out once every two weeks. They would overfill. So you had difficulty in that transition and you'd end up quite frankly throwing some of your recyclables into the regular garbage."
Bill and Elaine Eisner, Red Rock CC residents: "Well these bins, everything is contained, the new system which is fabulous. The old system with news papers, bottles, or whatever if there was any residual of liquid coming out, it could possibly just get all over. So it's a much better system, and actually Bill does all the carting out (smile). I have nothing to do with that. I can see that it's much easier for him to roll out the bin and recycling bin and garbage can."
[Title: "Recycling Carts, Trash Carts. Two Carts, Twice as Easy", music]
[Video of a Republic Services Automated Collection truck driving to a recycling plant, and workers processing recyclables]
Republic Services processes up to 20 tons of material per hour, eight hours a day, five days a week. We can do more.
[Video of a Republic truck driving by residences and picking up recycling cart with electronic arm. Streets look tidy with carts compared to old system.]
And this new single cart recycling system is just the thing. We can recycle more material. We've expanded the recyclables that we can accept. We can do it more efficiently with this system, while keeping our community cleaner.
[Video of garbage bags and old system recycling bins on curb looking messy]
So say goodbye to curb site bags, unsightly bins, and the constant sorting of material that so many of our customers find well, a little annoying.
[Picture of new trash cart]
Republic Services will provide new trash carts for everyone in the program, so you don't have to have your own trash cans any more.
[Recyclable cart with blue lid flashes into the picture next to the garbage cart]
We'll also deliver a recyclable cart, the one with the blue lid, to you as well. Now how easy is that?
Linda Clay, a Red Rock CC resident: "One of the things that I really love about the new program is that it has expanded the number of products that we can recycle. We're doing a lot more with not only the magazines and newspapers, but also even paper towel tube, the tube that goes in the middle of a paper towel roll. It's great! I love it.
[Video of a lady placing items in a recyclable cart]
Oh yeah, you don't have to separate your recyclables anymore.
[Pictures of various types of metallic cans, plastic containers, newspapers, magazines, and a phone book]
All your tin, steel and aluminum cans, plastic containers, newspapers, magazines, corrugated cardboard and old phone books all go into the blue cart.
[Pictures of cardboard box, junk mail, printer paper, brown paper bag, and cardboard from towel roll]
Here's the great part. We now accept for recycling paper board, you know cereal boxes. And empty paper towels, brown paper bags, junk mail, and office type paper like used fax paper or computer paper and the like.
[Picture of recyclable cart flashes in]
And they all go into one cart. Isn't that great? So remember, you won't need your own trash bins anymore and please still bag your trash before putting it into your trash cart.
Ornella Crescentini, a Rhodes Ranch resident: "Another beautiful thing, they give us this container for free."
Linda Clay, a Red Rock CC resident: "I understand that a few people have had some doubts about possibly odor coming from the cans. I never smelled anything, I have no qualms about that - not a problem at all.
[Title: Some Things Haven't Changed]
[Video of a Republic Services truck arm picking up recyclable cart and dumping it into the truck]
The single cart recycling system is designed to enhance the great customer care you have come to respect from Republic Services. We're confident that it will make trash recycling and disposal more convenient, help keep our neighborhoods cleaner, and increase the recycling rate for our community by expanding the items that we can recycle. And that's really terrific!
Other facets of our service won't be affected by the single cart recycling system at all. For instance, we'll still collect bulky items. And if you occasionally have an extra bag that won't fit into the cart just leave it next to your trash cart and we'll pick it up. We encourage you to call for an additional trash cart (702-599-5559) if you find that you're always exceeding the capacity of the new cart.
Bill and Elaine Eisner, Red Rock CC residents: Elaine: "Well the red, white, and blue bins were just difficult to deal with. Well you actually had to do all that work and come out every couple of weeks." Bill: "and they weren't light to carry out. The papers, the news papers, the white bins were very heavy when they got full". Elaine: "So, this is so easy to just - " Bill: " - drop them in there - " Elaine: " - take out." Bill: " - and we just take them out and roll them out (smiles)".
Gary Dole, a Red Rock CC resident: "We've had no difficulties switching to a once a week system. In fact it's quite a bit easier than it was two times a week simply because you don't have to remember to put garbage out and you don't have to remember what week is recycling and what isn't. And so it's really a simple, direct, and easy system to use in every way."
Linda Clay, a Red Rock CC resident: "I love this program, I am so excited about it!"
Elizabeth Guerrero, a Red Rock CC resident: "I love the recycle system because we have this bin that we put everything in it. You don't need to worry about hassling to separate everything. You just put everything in this big bin. It's awesome!"
Ornella Crescentini, a Rhodes Ranch resident: "I love it. I really love it. I really do."
Gary Dole, a Red Rock CC resident: "Our expectation is that the way it's worked in the short term, it needs to be permanent. We want it to be permanent and hope that the entire community feels the same way."
[Globe of Earth with Republic Services logo zooming in and spinning next to a green recycle logo]
Announcer: Thanks for watching and as we said earlier, do something terrific: recycle!