Quench your thirst the Berkeley way

Peace College may want to consider this option considering North Carolina is
banning all rigid plastic containers from landfills beginning October 1st, 2009.

03.19.2009 - Quench your thirst the Berkeley way

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Wal-Mart to Assign New 'Green' Ratings

Wal-Mart Thursday will tell suppliers they must calculate and disclose the full environmental costs of making their products, then allow Wal-Mart to distill the information into a rating system that shoppers will see alongside prices for everything from T-shirts to televisions.

Click to read more of the article from the Wall Street Journal.

Competitive chair affair: Students use only cardboard, glue - Washington Times

Competitive chair affair: Students use only cardboard, glue - Washington Times

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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This Saturday get rid of your old, outdated electronics by dropping them off at one of three Best Buys locations.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.

Used Book Drive!!!

Our used book drive is well under way! To date we have collected over 200 books!!! Thank you Peace College for your support of this program. I am so encouraged to see how the campus has gotton behind this initiative.

From now until May 11th place your new or used textbooks as well as other books in one of the bins located around campus (Ross, Peace Perk and Flowe). All donations will be sent to Better World Books to fund literacy programs in Africa.

In addition to funding a wonderful program we are excited to support such a positive alternative to sending these books to local landfills. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Used Supply Drive

In the spirit of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Peace will be having an end of semester used supply drive. We will focus our efforts on collecting used school supplies, gently used clothing and hygienic items such as shampoos, etc. All items collected will be sorted and donated to neighboring after school programs and womens shelters. To participate place any usable items from these categories in one of the collection boxes located inside the residence halls. The drive begins Friday and ends May 8th.

(Examples- half empty bottles of shampoo/ conditioner/ lotion, used folders/ pens/ notebooks, clothing, etc.)

Contact Jessica Baxter with questions x2469

What Can One Person Do?

Evidently a great deal according to Rhiannon Pittman a junior at Peace College.

“My client is the Peace College Wellness Center. I created a promotional campaign called "What can one person do?" The goal of my project is to educate the viewers on how to help create a healthier world. I also wanted to inspire people to do something to contribute to a healthier world, even if it’s small.”

“I felt like the best way to achieve my goal was to create a display of things that are bad for our world and offer alternatives that will make our world healthier. By using massive amounts of certain objects, I am hoping to catch the viewer’s attention and shock them with reality of the facts that I have provided along with the objects. The facts that I provided will also educate the viewers and hopefully will inspire them to do something to promote a healthier world.”

Rhiannon Pittman

Click Items below to see how you can make a difference.

Incandescent Bulbs

Styrofoam

Plastic Bottles

Phone Books

Plastic Bags