Recycling Update
February, 2009
Previous Updates Here 
 

Spring Recycling Event

Don't miss the next Community Recycling Day!  April 25 from 9am-2pm at the Pavilion (Meridian Farmers' Market).  Current items to be collected include:

• Plastics (#1-7, no sorting necessary)
• Paperback & Hardback Books (sort by fiction & nonfiction)
• Telephone Books
• Clear & Colored Glass (no auto glass)
• Pharmaceuticals (prescription & nonprescription in original container preferred- veterinary medications also accepted)
• Polystyrene (Styrofoam) (clean & placed in clear plastic bags)
• Polystyrene Peanuts (Styrofoam) & Bubble Wrap (bag separately from other polystyrene)

It's a good time to start collecting, sorting, and saving.  It's also a good time to get the word out to your neighbors, and/or  volunteer list (call Barbara at 337-1705). 

Thank you to our Special Events Committee for their volunteer efforts in organizing this big event!!!  Also, thanks to our event sponsors, including Ingham County for supporting the pharm-waste collection.

Electronics Recycling

A FREE collection will be held on Feb 7 from 9am-2pm at the Ingham County Road Commission, 5613 S. Aurelius Rd.(between Jolly and Miller) Lansing.  Flyer Here  Includes: TVs (all sizes), PCs, Printers, Cell Phones, Monitors, and computer-related parts.  The January event was packed.  If you plan on attending, be prepared for long lines.  Another event is tentatively planned for May 2 with details to be announced.  Also see other options below. 

See the calendar for more collections, green events, and other fun activities in the region.

 

Other GREEN options for E-waste

• Usable or Repairable Electronics (details change -- contact source for latest info.)

  • Lansing Freecycle Network  and Mid-Michigan Re-Use-It Network (search Yahoo "Groups" or click the links on the web)

  • Goodwill Industries www.re-news.net/meridian/computer.pdf
     

• Best Buy  (huge new program starts in February!)
   

• Waste Management (mail in options)
   

• Cleanlites (fluorescent light bulbs and ballasts in Mason)
   

• Home Depot (compact fluorescent bulbs)
   

• Ingham County Household Hazardous Waste Collections (spring - fall)
   

• Reduce and Re-use:  Buy Energy Star and/or energy efficient products to begin with that pollute less. (many electronic appliances use more energy when they are NOT running than when they are -- phantom energy or vampire loads).  See www.energystar.gov
  
   

Recycling Center News

Thanks!
Thanks to all of you who've helped by properly sorting, preparing, flattening, and depositing your recyclables!  Keith, Meridian's Recycling Center/Transfer Station Attendant, works hard to keep the Center running smoothly.  Thanks Keith!

Need a refresher?
If you need a refresher (like most of us) on "recycle-logic" (what's accepted, etc.), click the link above.  Also, if a container is getting full, please push/place material to the back of the container.  It takes a lot of energy to haul a big dumpster to the recycling processing facility in Lansing, the more you flatten, the more we can squeeze in to a load, and the less gas/diesel is burned.

 

Tri-County Waste Reduction Award Program
 

Visit the Office of Waste Reduction Services' website.  Click here

 

Green Networking Opportunity

http://greendrinkslansing.org/

   

Green Cleaning Options

click here

 

Earth 911
from Brett Dreyfus

 

Here's a good recycling resource   http://earth911.com/

 

 

Quick links

• get involved!
• factsheets
• organizations
• recycling center/transfer station
• Green Star program
• regional recycling drop-off sites

Thank you for your questions and suggestions!  Please send green tips to harvey@meridian.mi.us or call 505-2809
 

Website
www.re-news.net/meridian
 

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