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EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day was a big success: Collected over 1 Million Pounds of e-Waste and 1 Million Unwanted Pills in eight states across Great Lakes basin
Great Lakes residents met the EPA challenge on Earth Day 2008 to collect/recycle electronic waste and properly dispose of unwanted medicines.
Electronic waste collected included old/broken TVs, cell phones and computer components that may contain hazardous materials that can harm human health and the environment if disposed of improperly. In 2005, Americans discarded about 2 million tons of TVs, computers and other electronics.
Traces of medicines are in some streams and the Great Lakes where we get drinking water and has been detected near wastewater treatment outflows. Some meds can lead to reproductive/developmental problems in fish/animals. Over 50% of people surveyed throw unused medicines in the trash and a third flush them down the drain. Those drugs likely end up in rivers/lakes.
Great Lakes residents met the EPA challenge on Earth Day 2008 to collect/recycle electronic waste and properly dispose of unwanted medicines.
Electronic waste collected included old/broken TVs, cell phones and computer components that may contain hazardous materials that can harm human health and the environment if disposed of improperly. In 2005, Americans discarded about 2 million tons of TVs, computers and other electronics.
Traces of medicines are in some streams and the Great Lakes where we get drinking water and has been detected near wastewater treatment outflows. Some meds can lead to reproductive/developmental problems in fish/animals. Over 50% of people surveyed throw unused medicines in the trash and a third flush them down the drain. Those drugs likely end up in rivers/lakes.
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EPA'S Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge a resounding success
(Chicago, Ill.) - Communities and residents of the Great Lakes basin have responded enthusiastically to EPA's Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge to collect 1 million pounds of electronics for recycling and 1 million pills for safe disposal to keep contaminants out of the Great Lakes.
"We are very pleased that so many people have stepped up to accept the Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge," said EPA Great Lakes National Program Manager and Region 5 Administrator Mary A. Gade. "Communities have reported collecting more medicines and electronics this Earth Week than at any previous collections."
EPA has received preliminary results: Over 2,184,000 pills have already been turned in for safe disposal - more than double the challenge goal.
EPA also expects to far exceed its goal for e-waste based on 216,000 pounds of electronics collected at six events.
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Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge collection sites included locations in eight states:
Illinois:
Beecher, Bolingbrook, Channahon, Chicago, Elk Grove Village, Glenview, Joliet, Park Ridge, Romeoville, Shorewood, West Chicago, Wheaton
Indiana:
LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Rushville, Valparaiso
Michigan:
Benton Harbor, Traverse City
Minnesota:
Duluth, Madison, New Ulm
New York:
Syracuse
Ohio:
Cleveland, Perrysburg, Sandusky, Springfield, Warren
Pennsylvania:
TBA
Wisconsin:
Appleton, Brillion, Chilton, Keshena (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and College of Menominee Nation), Milwaukee, New Holstein, Oshkosh, Racine, Waupaca
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United States
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Collecting e-waste/pharmaceutical waste, recycling electronics, properly incinerating and disposing old /unused drugs, Protecting Planet Earth
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Earth Healing Initiative
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