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April 2009
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November 2008 ArchivesThe holiday season offers residents a unique opportunity to dispose of used turkey fryer oil, along with other cooking oils, for recycling into biodegradable renewable fuel. The Household Chemical Collection Program offers a convenient pick-up service for the collection of cooking oil all year to Plano residents. The oil needs to be placed in rigid plastic containers, labeled, and secured with screw top lids for transporting. To schedu... Reducing Budgets by 10K the Green Way ConnectEDU just released a new Green Paper, our version of a white paper but of course with an environmental topic. ConnectEDU is an Education Solutions company that connects high schools students, colleges and employers. Yes, marketing's attempt to be irreverent, but what we learned was pretty serious. We already knew that college students were motivated by eco-friendly solutions. ... I think we are the only shopping center in town recycling everything! Our restaurant (Aurora) started this project by getting all the tenants to sign a petition requesting the landlord provide recycling bins since neither the city of Dallas nor Highland Park (where we are) provide commerical recycling services. Between three restaurants in this small strip center, we throw away "tons" of glass wine and water bottles alone. I wanted to send an email out to you guys so maybe you can help others. I purchased a Go Green product from a website called power2savings. At first I were skeptical of there product but I was intrigued on a 60 day money back guarantee. I installed the unit in August and in October I seen a 12% reduction in my energy bill from the month before and a 14 % reduction ($73.00 savings) in my bill from October of 2007 (just to compare apples to appl... The City of Terrell, Kaufman Co. Pct. 3 and the Environmental Co-op are partnering to open a new Recycling Drop-off Center in Terrell on Friday, November 14 at 11 am. The new containers will be located at N. Delphine and E. High Streets. Citizens of Terrell and Kaufman County can drop off plastics #1 and #2, steel and tin cans and aluminum cans, as well as paper of all kinds. This location will be open 24/7 for the convenience of our c... I am writing to let you know about the inituitive in Arlington to support commercial recycling. The Arlington Green Tean headed up by Tim Yatko has been very supportive in helping business's recycle. Before Arlington established this support there was no help available in this area. Our office is now recycling paper, plastic and aluminum. In the past 5 months we have saved close to 700 pounds from our landfill. In addition we support the Arlin... |
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