Greensun Joy Over Barnesville Recycle Center Upgrade
Greensun visited the recently upgraded Lamar County Recycle Center. Lamar County is now working to recycle in the Griffin Hub Single Stream recycling program. Dependable Waste is the hauler. Pratt Recycling serves as the Materials Recovery Facility. The successful upgrade is managed by Mr. Larry Johnson, a leader in recycling best practices. It is a joy to see this recycle center come on board with the State of Georgia Recycle Hub program. The Griffin Hub program was introduced to Barnesville during Summer, 2008 with Greensun facilitating education and development. We believe Lamar County provides an excellent model for Georgia towns moving forward with single stream and cardboard recycling efforts.
Greensun also enjoyed a lovely visit with the owner of the newly opened Maxi’s. We highly recommend this delightful locally owned and operated establishment.
Greensun Recycles for Bags to Benches Program
Ecoville, Ga…Athens-Clarke County did another program during fall 2007 and collected enough bags for a donation of recycled lumber to build an “animal playground” playscape for the bears, otters, and bobcats at their local zoo.
Greensun recycles Plastic bags to encourage the Bags to Benches Program.
How can I recycle plastic bags? most Kroger, Wal-Mart, and Publix and other grocery stores take plastic bags for recycling at the front of their stores. As an precycle alternative, choose reusable market bags.
Trex.com uses about 1.5 billion recycled plastic bags each year to manufacture decking products. Recycle plastic bags and film, newspaper bags, plastic dry cleaning bags, all bags labeled #2 or #4.
In 2007 Giant and Martin’s recycled 2,479,561 lbs. (that’s 59 tractor trailer loads) of baled plastic bags and wrap.
Trex “logs” are made from the recycled bags and wraps and mixed with wood pulp.
Each bench contains over 10,000 plastic bags.
