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News
2008
Recycling Guide
Winter 2008 Newsletter
Poster Art Contest Rules
Recycling Bin
Grant
One Light at a Time
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
Green Power
Plastics #1-7
KRC Business Services
Knoxville Green Directory
Old Computers at Curbside
Less than 2 weeks to turn in your entry for the Recycling Poster Contest! Knox County students (public and private)
please join us in our contest and creation of a recycling theme calendar.
All students are invited to participate in an art contest with the theme
of recycling. Cash prizes will be awarded and the poster will be used to
create a calendar that will be distributed around the county. Winners
will be announced at EarthFest. For more info email: frankkrc@comcast.net or click here.
Please have fun and submit an entry!
One Light at a Time
The City of Knoxville Public Service Department has for the second year
made a commitment to do our part to save energy and help fight global
warming. With your help, we can do even more. Be part of our team and
pledge
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=cal.pledgeForm&cpd_id=1614&campaign_year=2007
to make your next light bulb or fixture one that's earned the
government's ENERGY STAR* label for excellence in energy efficiency. The
pledge is a simple but vital method of encouraging more people like you
to commit to preventing greenhouse gases and saving energy resources,
one light - one energy-saving step - at a time.
Knoxville's Help Us Change the World, One Light at a Time is at 39 % of
goal and on track for it's completion date of April 22, 2008!
Please
make your pledge if you haven't already done so.
Our goal is to get 100
people to pledge to change at least one light at
home. Last year we surpassed our goal of 100 with 130 pledges. Just
think, by reaching this year's goal we will be making a significant
impact on our environment, potentially preventing approximately 7,900
lb. of greenhouse gas emissions and 5,147 kWh equivalency savings of
energy.
Every ENERGY STAR qualified light bulb uses 75% less energy than a
standard bulb, lasts up 10 times longer and can save about $30 or more
in energy costs - while preventing more than 400 pounds of greenhouse
gas emissions over its lifetime.
Take the ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge today
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=cal.pledgeForm&cpd_id=1614&campaign_year=2007
and help us reach our goal! It's a small step that's already making a
big difference.
Residents of Knoxville and Knox County can recycle your old bulbs at
the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center at
http://www.cityofknoxville.org/solidwaste/hazwaste.asp
Thank you for your support!
Eat Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream for Community Shares
Every 1st
Tuesday of the month from 5-8pm, 20% of all sales goes to Community
Shares, a organization that works for funding local organizations, such
as the Knoxville Recycling Coalition. Ben and Jerry’s is located in
Western Plaza right next to Fresh Market. So pick-up some grocies and
enjoy a delicious ice cream or Green Mountain coffee or a smoothy. If you
haven’t had Ben and Jerry’s…it might just be the best ice cream out
there. The next date is 11/6, then 12/4, 1/1, 2/5…..
If You
Recycle You May Also Want to Buy Green Power
Buying
two blocks of green power for a year is the environmental equivalent of
recycling 15,322 aluminum cans. Two blocks is 300 kilowatt-hours, which
only costs $8 a month. The green power that you pay for is added to the
overall mix of power that TVA provides to the valley. The more green
power purchased by customers, the more it off sets the use of coal over
time. TVA’s Green Power Switch renewable energy supply is 78% wind, 21.5%
methane, and .5% solar. To sign-up or learn more visit http://www.greenpowerswitch.com/
Knox County Convenience Centers and Knoxville Recycling Centers are
now accepting plastics #1-7. Stryofoam is not accepted
because it can only be recycled in large quantities but even that depends
on the market. It is best to avoid using styrofoam. The signs on the bins
may still say #1 and #2 only because they have not been updated, please
ignore.
KRC Announces New Recycling Services
KRC now offers its business customers a variety of recycling services
in addition to our regular Office Paper Recycling Service. These new
services include:
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Cardboard boxes
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Aluminum cans
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Plastic bottles
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Computers
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Cell Phones
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Other materials by arrangement.
As part of these new services, KRC is offering a free Waste
Evaluation to assist you in identifing the materials that can be
recycled and establishing the best way of doing so. Our goal is to help
your business recycle as much material as possible in an efficient and
cost-effective method. For more information, please call Traci Black at
525-9694, or email at tracikrc@comcast.net.
Check Out Knoxville’s Green Enterprise
Directory
Knoxville now has a
handy directory of green businesses and organizations that will enable
citizens to become more informed about environmentally friendly groups in
our area. The Green Enterprise
Directory was printed by the Foundation for Global
Sustainability.
Leave Old Computers at Curb with
Waste Connections
If you live in the City
of Knoxville, you can leave your old computers at your curb if you have
garbage service with Waste Connections. They will take the old computers off your hands and deliver
them to the Household Hazardous Waste Facility. Call the City at 311 for more info or Waste
Connections at 865-522-8161.
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