We at the Dixboro General Store take great pride in our efforts to Recycle, Reduce & Reuse.
If we can recycle it, we usually do. All of the glass jars and plastic containers from our food samples are recycled, and we have a special dumpster strictly for corrugated cardboard pickup.
It isn't
always very simple either. Usually, during our Christmas Open House, we
have so much cardboard, it was easier to fill our truck with it than to try making it fit in the dumpster. We then
drive it to the recycling center ourselves!
Styrofoam is our next biggest product. In the past six
months we've taken three truckloads to the recycling center!
Even those annoying little foamie popcorn pieces don't end up in our trash. We fill hundreds of boxes a year with those things and we take them down the road to the local packaging store where they always end up being reused.
We have, on occasion driven out of state to pick up merchandise that otherwise would have been packaged in a spray foam that, once it hardens and expands, is impossible to do anything with.
It takes a little extra time, and in the great big world we're just a small blip, but we're proud to be able to say we're doing our part.
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recognize Washtenaw County businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations who make an effort to preserve and protect the environment by reducing, reusing, and recycling. 
