Recycling Saves Energy

We have posted a ThinkGreen Widget from Waste Management on the left sidebar. The widget will help you calculate the amount of energy you have saved by recycling. Or click the link here to visit Waste Management’s Think Green web site.

eCycling

This Saturday get rid of your old, outdated electronics by dropping them off at one of three Best Buys locations. Volunteers will even unload your car for you.



To learn more check out this website:

http://www.fox50.com/dpp/community/E_Cycling_Page

Durham - Renaissance Center (7001 Fayetteville Rd, Durham, NC 27713)
North Raleigh - Capital Blvd. (6101 Capital Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27616)
Cary - Crossroads Plaza (237 Crossroads Blvd, Cary, NC 27518)

These items can be recycled:

• Tape Players
• Printed Circuit Boards
• Computer Monitors – Flat Panel
• CD Players
• UPS (personal & network)
• Televisions – CRTs
• Telephones
• Routers
• Televisions – Flat Screen
• Cell Phones
• Resistors Capacitors
• Desktop Computers
• Fax Machines
• Diodes
• Laptop Computers
• Electronic Games
• Terminals
• Keyboards
• Power & Network Cables
• Rechargeable Batteries
• Mice
• Network Hubs
• Peripherals
• Printers
• Switching boxes
• Military Equipment
• Scanners
• Controllers
• Medical Equipment
• Copy Machines
• Modems
• Telecommunications
• VCRs
• Docking Stations
• Commercial Equipment
• Stereos
• CD Roms
• Office Equipment
• Radios
• Hard Drives
• Banking Equipment
• Mainframes

N.C. Law to Ban Plastic Bottles from Landfills

Under a new law that takes effect Oct. 1, North Carolina will be banning all rigid plastic containers from landfills. This includes any bottles with a neck smaller than the container itself.

Every 17.3 seconds, North Carolinians throw away enough plastic bottles to reach the height of the Bank of America Building in Charlotte. Click here to see what happens to plastic when you recycle.

North Carolina is also building the nation’s largest facility to recycle PET bottles, which will able to process 280 million pounds of material per year. One of the primary partners in this venture is carpet manufacturer Shaw Industries Group, LLC, which can turn recycled PET into polyester for use in carpeting.

Clear Path Recycling will construct its facility in Fayetteville, N.C. at the DAK Americas’ Cedar Creek Site. DAK currently operates a PET resin manufacturing facility on-site and has significant infrastructure in place that the new JV will utilize. Approximately 100 new jobs will be created at the facility at the completion of both phases.

Unique Video!

I ran across a very good video that is part of a save energy campaign in Victoria Australia.

It was created by George Patterson Y&R Melbourne. The video demonstrates the result of energy use in the home and greenhouse gas emissions using a black balloons.