Amy Wilson
The Recycling Team
Bend, Oregon
awilson@bendnet.com
At 06:00 AM 12/10/1999 -0500, you wrote:
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>Today's Topics:
> [GRRN] 5 gallon plastic buckets [
"Brian W. Pugh" <BPugh@4county.com> ]
> [GRRN] 5-gallon buckets [
"Elizabeth Roe" <etr@in.net> ]
> [GRRN] Coke management change [
Cindy Shea <cpshea@earthlink.net> ]
> [GRRN] adding textiles to curbside [
Brenda Platt <bplatt@ilsr.org> ]
> Re: [GRRN] adding textiles to curbside [
Steve1092@aol.com ]
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>Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 08:44:22 -0600
>From: "Brian W. Pugh" <BPugh@4county.com>
>To: "'greenyes@earthsystems.org'" <greenyes@earthsystems.org>
>Subject: [GRRN] 5 gallon plastic buckets
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>Hello everyone,
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>There is an industry here in Northwest Arkansas that has HDPE 5 gallon
>buckets that they are looking to recycle. They usually generate between 50
>to 100 buckets a week. They have metal handles ( that could be removed )
>and they have lids with a rubber gasket attached to them. They don't have a
>baler and purchasing a grinder would be to costly for them. Does anybody
>have any ideas where these buckets could be recycled/reused? Thanks in
>advance.
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>Brian Pugh
>Four County Solid Waste District
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>Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 11:03:03 -0500
>From: "Elizabeth Roe" <etr@in.net>
>To: <greenyes@earthsystems.org>
>Subject: [GRRN] 5-gallon buckets
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>Hi, about the Arkansas buckets: Have they tried listing with a materials =
>exchange? Go to www.enviroworld.com/Resources/matexchs.html. This has a =
>complete list of materials exchanges.
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>Elizabeth Roe
>Eco Partners, Inc.
>Indianapolis
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>Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 12:55:18 -0500
>From: Cindy Shea <cpshea@earthlink.net>
>To: "greenyes@earthsystems.org" <greenyes@earthsystems.org>
>Subject: [GRRN] Coke management change
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>There may be good news on the Coke take-back horizon. Douglas Daft takes
>over as the company's new president in April. He's Australian and known
>to be more inclusive than Ivester. An AP article appeared in today's St.
>Petersburg Times, but for some reason it's not available on-line.
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>--
>Cindy Pollock Shea
>Contributing Editor
>Florida Sustainable Communities Center
>http://sustainable.state.fl.us
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>Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 15:19:06 +0000
>From: Brenda Platt <bplatt@ilsr.org>
>To: greenyes@earthsystems.org, SueBNelson@aol.com
>Subject: [GRRN] adding textiles to curbside
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>Sue,
>one important key to adding textiles to curbside is to keep them dry and
>clean. To that end, most programs collecting textiles either provide
>residents with specially marked plastic bags or ask residents to put
>textiles in plastic bags. Residents can then set out the bags alongside
>their other recyclables. Truck crews can then throw the bags in with
>the compartment used to collect paper. Residents don't have bags of
>textiles every week as they would other commonly discarded material, so
>it's usually not a capacity issue on the trucks. At the materials
>recovery facility, a worker can pick off the bags of textiles after the
>paper is unloaded onto a conveyor. I am not familiar with any programs
>that collect textiles in the same compartment as food and beverage
>containers.
>Cheers,
>Brenda
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>Brenda A. Platt
>Director, Materials Recovery
>Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>2425 18th Street, NW
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>Ph (202) 232-4108 fax (202) 332-0463
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>Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:38:56 EST
>From: Steve1092@aol.com
>To: greenyes@earthsystems.org
>Subject: Re: [GRRN] adding textiles to curbside
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>Recycling programs in RI accept textiles. I believe they accept them
loosely
>mixed with paper. http://www.rirrc.org
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