Erie, PA residents dropped off about 600 pounds of medicine and personal care products on
Erie, PA residents dropped off about 600 pounds of medicine and personal care products on April 26, 2008 at the Cruise Boat Terminal Building during the Pennsylvania Sea Grant pharmaceutical collection.
Located behind the Dr. Raymond Blasco Memorial Library the collection brought in over 73,000 pills and a lots of controlled substances like narcotic pain medication, said Sara Grisè, PA Sea Grant coastal outreach specialist.
Results::
87 participants
120 gallons of materials
5 of the 120 gallons were controlled substances
About 600 pounds of medicine/personal care products
Controlled: 3,839 pills
Non-Controlled: 69,232 pills
Personal Care products: 384
The Keep Unwanted Medicine out of Lake Erie Medicine Collection Day was part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The challenge involved over 100 collections across eight states. Lake Erie's reputation especially in the 1960s and 1970s was an extremely polluted and even dead lake. By all accounts, residents and officials have done a great job restoring Lake Erie - where fishing, boating and swimming are popular.
The EPA Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan helped the recovery of Lake Erie. Officials have been fighting the Zebra Muscle problem in Lake Erie.
One pharmaceutical collection goal was to prevent medicine s from being discharged into Lake Erie and make sure drugs don't end up in other lakes and streams.
Many wastewater treatment plants around the world are not designed to remove the cocktail of chemicals after the drugs are flushed or dumped down the drain - and the drugs can leach out of landfills into the groundwater.
Unsung heros at pharmaceuticals collections are police and pharmacists without whom the collections wouldn't be possible. Erie Police, pharmacists accepted pharmaceuticals.
Based on experience, organizers discovered the turnout was bigger when residents don't have to preregister. Of 87 residents participating in the collection, 61 did not preregister.
And similar to the other collections, most Erie participants were older adults as 89 percent were over the age of 46. Assisting the event was ECS & R - Environmental Coordination Services and Recycling in Cochranton, PA.
Organizers of the Erie collection included PA Sea Grant, the City of Erie, Lake Erie-Allegheny Earth Force, LECOM School of Pharmacy, and Erie Times-News in Education.
Organizers partnered with WJET-TV Erie Green Campaign.
WSEE TV provided their news story for use in this video.
The PA Sea Grant received a grant from the United States EPA (EPA). The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The EPA says those goals were exceeded by 400 to 500 percent.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted some challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area. This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US EPA in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office, EPA Great Lakes National Program Office in Chicago and the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment.
Greg Peterson, Earth Healing TV
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Sara Grisè
PA Sea Grant
814-217-9011
www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant/seagindex.htm
EPA Region 5
www.epa.gov/region5
ECS&R
www.ecsr.net
WJET-TV
yourerie.com/content/green
WSEE TV
www.wsee.tv
Erie Times-News
www.goerie.com
City of Erie
www.ci.erie.pa.us
www.ci.erie.pa.us/Departments/PoliceDepartment/tabid/72/Defa ult.aspx
Lake Erie-Allegheny Earth Force
www.earthforce.org/section/offices/lea
LECOM school of Pharmacy
www.lecom.edu/school_pharmacy.php
Photos by Pat Noble,WikiProject Erie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pnoble805
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie
Jim's Photos Unixdoctor
www.unixdoctor.com/gallery/albums.php
Lake Erie map graphic Lawrence W. Ellerbruch, NMU
www.ellerbruch.nmu.edu/classes/cs255f03/cs255students/aterav es/P6/tutorial2.html
Environment Canada
www.ec.gc.ca
Ohio EPA
www.epa.state.oh.us
EPA/Bay City Times/Great Lakes Enviro Research Lab/Zebra Mussels photo
www.epa.gov/lakeerie/index.html
www.epa.gov/grtlakes/image/viz_iss4.html
Interfaith EHI
www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
CTI
www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
Earth 911:
www.earth911.org
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Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i)
Interfaith Resources/Special Ideas:
www.interfaithresources.com
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They kept the traffic flowing in Milwaukee as more than 2,000 people dropped off unused me
They kept the traffic flowing in Milwaukee as more than 2,000 people dropped off unused medications during an Earth Day 2008 project to properly dispose unwanted pharmaceuticals.
Milwaukee residents turned in 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
Over 7,000 pounds of pharmaceuticals were turned by the public in only four hours during the Milwaukee area's Medicine Collection Day on Saturday, April 19, 2008.
The third annual pharmaceutical collection was again organized by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD).
Organizers handed out fliers and took a survey.
Named "A prescription for clean water and safe kids," unused medication collection sites were set up in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, and Washington Counties.
Pharmacists and police officers worked at all the challenge pharmaceutical collections.
Milwaukee was one of 100 EPA challenge projects in 8 states in the Great Lakes basin.
The event helps protect Lake Michigan, other lakes/streams plus prevents childhood poisonings, and reduce substance abuse.
Pharmaceuticals were destroyed in state-of-the-art EPA-approved incinerators.
Organizers say you should never flush or pour old medicine down the drain because many wastewater treatment plants are not designed to remove the chemicals - that are returning to lakes and rivers - and end up in your tap water.
Law enforcement destroyed narcotic pain killers, cough syrup with codeine, and tranquilizers.
Medications incinerated include blood pressure medicine, aspirin, and cholesterol medication.
The medicine collection program thanks its partners who make the annual event possible.
Partners include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Milwaukee Police, Milwaukee Brewers, City of Milwaukee, Aurora Pharmacy, Columbia St. Mary's, City of Racine, Racine Police Department, Burlington Police Department, Western Racine County Health Department, Caledonia/Mt. Pleasant Health Department, Ozaukee County Public Health Department, Ozaukee County Sheriff's Department, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Village of Saukville, Washington County, Washington County Sheriff's Department, and City of West Bend Sewer Utility.
For more info 414-225-2077.
The EPA awarded grants to numerous challenge cities including Milwaukee.
A second Milwaukee project connected to the challenge involved the public turning in nearly 32 tons of electronics on April 26, 2008.
The e-waste collection was organized by the Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW).
Averaging three cars per minute, over 706 vehicles dropped off electronics at the collection site near the Italian Community Center and the Summerfest Grounds.
More than two thirds of the collection involved computers and related equipment.
The DPW collected 643 computer monitors weighing over ten tons, 338 televisions weighing over 5 tons; over 7 tons of personal computers and nearly 5 tons of computer printers
Event partners included the U.S. EPA, Milwaukee DPW, Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, the Italian Community Center, Midwest Computer Recyclers & WISN-TV.
The EPA Challenge goal was collecting/recycling one million pounds of electronics plus the collection/proper disposal of one million pills. That goal was exceeded by 400-500 percent.
The Earth Healing Initiative offered interfaith liaisons to volunteer & encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area.
Earth Healing liaison Rev. Brad Brown, campus pastor for Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry, distributed 5,000 fliers for the medicine collection.
This video was made possible by a grant from the US EPA in collaboration with the EPA Region 5 office in Chicago the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office in Chicago with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette,MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal protect and defend the environment.
Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
Steve Jacquart
414-225-2138
MMSD
http://www.mmsd.com
Milwaukee Dept of Public Works
Rick Meyers
414-286-2334
http://www.mpw.net
EPA Region 5 Office Chicago
Bharat Mathur, EPA Deputy Regional Admin.
312-886-3000
http://www.epa.gov/region5/aboutr5/organization.htm
Susan Boehme, PhD
Coastal Sediment Specialist Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
Liaison to U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office
http://www.iisgcp.org
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A leader in electronic waste recycling projects in the northeast is the Onondaga County Re
A leader in electronic waste recycling projects in the northeast is the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) in Syracuse, NY.
The agency held a TV collection on Saturday, April 19 in the Alliance Bank Stadium parking lot as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency received an EPA grant to help offset costs of the recycling project.
It was one of over 100 projects involved in the challenge across eight states in the Great Lakes Basin.
Organizers keep traffic flowing smoothly as 964 vehicles arrived with old TVs.
The event took in 1,551 old television sets weighing 97,080 pounds, according to Andrew Radin, Director of Recycling and Waste Reduction for the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency.
That means nearly 9 tons of old TVs from central New York were recycled.
The agency also holds ongoing e-waste collections at the Community Collection Center also know as 3-C - located at 6085 Court Street - in Syracuse, NY.
The electronics collection dates and times are:
Tuesdays from 4pm to 8pm;
Thursdays from 8am to noon;
and Saturdays from 9am to 1 p.m.
There is no charge to drop off household e-waste and other items at the collection center.
The agency is developing a plan to accept TVs at the center.
Over 60,000 pounds has been turned in at the Community Collection Center so far this year.
Business waste in not accepted.
The center accepts books, covers must be removed.
The agency is helping the hungry - by asking residents dropping off items to be recycled to also bring canned food and other non perishables for Food Bank of Central New York.
Since 2002, OCRRA has collected over 1,000 tons of e-waste from the community for recycling
OCRRA has numerous environment projects that benefit the Syracuse area including it's Blue Bin It campaign.
Blue Bin It is based on the well-know blue bins that are popular in recycling projects across the country.
OCRRA has a series of radio spots promoting its blue bin it campaign.
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The EPA says those goals were exceeded by 400 to 500 percent.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted some challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office also in Chicago in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment.
I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
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OCRRA
http://www.ocrra.org/recycling_c3.asp
Andrew Radin
Director of Recycling and Waste Reduction
Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA)
315-453-2866
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Food Bank of Central New York
http://www.foodbankcny.org
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York
Syracuse photos by Joe Grimes
Syracuse skyline photo by Kai Brinker, WikiProject Syracuse, New York
Jerry Rescue Monument photo by Paul Malo
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EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.epa.gov/region5
Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
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Western U.P. electronic waste collections set: June 21 in Houghton and Keweenaw counties;
Western U.P. electronic waste collections set: June 21 in Houghton and Keweenaw counties; July 12 in Baraga County; dates for other areas TBA
The Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program, a project of the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), provides households with an environmentally and economically sound solution to disposing of electronic waste.
Residents of Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon Counties, who have generated electronic waste in their household, may bring their items to e-waste collection sites on the specified collection dates in their area.
The initiative received grants and/or other assistance from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The northern Michigan collection is connected to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that involves over 100 projects in eight states across the Great Lakes Basin.
More than a dozen previous collections since 2005 have garnered nearly 48 tons of e-waste from over 850 participants.
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2005: 8 collections, 26.5 tons
2006: 4 collections, 15 tons
2007: 1 collection, 6.25 tons
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Commonly called e-waste, electronics waste includes old and broken computers, cell phones, TVs and other items found in many homes.
The collection for Houghton and Keweenaw counties will be on June 21 from 9 am to noon at the health department offices in Hancock.
An e-waste collection will be held in Baraga County on July 12 from 10 a.m. to noon at a site to be announced.
Collection events for other Copper Country counties will be announced in the future.
The cost to drop off e-waste is 10 cents per pound.
The Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program will accept a wide range of e-waste during collection events including cell phones, computer and related equipment like laptops, monitors, towers aka central processing units, printers, scanners, keyboards and computer mice
Other e-waste accepted includes stereo equipment, televisions, VCR and DVD players, copiers, cordless telephones, fax machines, fluorescent light bulbs that are 4 to 8 feet in length, microwave ovens and batteries including alkaline, nickel cadmium, lead acid, lithium, mercury
Organizers said it estimated that between 1997 and 2007, nearly 500 million personal computers will became obsolete. That's almost 2 computers for every person living in the United States.
TV's and computer monitors contain an average of 4 pounds of lead, as well as other toxins.
According to Closing the Circle News, the manufacture of one computer consumes 529 pounds of fossil fuels, 49 pounds of chemicals, and 3,307 pounds of water.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects that nationwide nearly 250 million computers will become obsolete in the next five years.
For additional information contact the Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program or RSVP at 906-482-7382.
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The EPA says those goals were exceeded by 400 to 500 percent.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted some challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office also in Chicago in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment.
I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
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Western Upper Peninsula District Health Department:
http://www.wupdhd.org
http://www.wupdhd.org/rsvp/e-waste.html
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RSVP:
http://www.wupdhd.org/rsvp/index.html
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Western Upper Peninsula District Health Department and the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program
540 Depot Street
Hancock, MI
49930
Barbara Maronen
906-482-7382
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EPA Region 5 Office Chicago
http://www.epa.gov/region5
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
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Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
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Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i Community) of Interfaith Resources - Special Ideas website:
http://www.interfaithresources.com
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Free, special collection for old prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals for res
Free, special collection for old prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals for residents of southwest Michigan set for June 21, 2008 in Kalamazoo County
Residents of the Kalamazoo area and all of southwest Michigan can to their part to protect the Great Lakes during a free public pharmaceutical collection later this month.
Old and unwanted medicines and personal care products will be accepted on Saturday, June 21, from 9 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at the Loy Norrix High School, 606 E. Kilgore (off Lovers Lane) in Kalamazoo.
The pharmaceutical collection is sponsored by Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that provided a grant for the project.
The collection is connected to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that involves over 100 projects in eight states across the Great Lakes Basin.
Southwest Michigan residents can rid their home of unwanted prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals plus personal care products.
For example - items that will be accepted include:
• Prescription medication, such as antibiotics, birth control, and insulin (but no sharps or syringes)
• Medication samples and over-the-counter medication, such as ibuprofen, aspirin, cold medicine
• Personal care products, such as medicated ointments, lotions, and shampoos
• Veterinary medications
Items that will not be accepted include:
• Medical waste like sharps and syringes
• Products containing mercury like thermometers
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The collection is free to all households in southwest Michigan.
Organizers say the collection is important to protect Lake Michigan and other lakes and streams - like Arcadia Creek.
The reason - an investigation by the Associated Press found a wide variety of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, mood stabilizers and hormones, in the drinking water of 41 million Americans.
Most medications pass untreated through wastewater treatment plants because those facilities are not designed to remove the chemicals.
That means the pharmaceuticals are discharged into local rivers or groundwater
For more information call 269-373-5211
Or visit the EPA and Kalamazoo County websites at these addresses:
http://www.epa.gov/ppcp
http://www.kalcounty.com/hcs
Again - a free pharmaceutical collection for residents of the Kalamazoo area and southwest Michigan will be held on Saturday, June 21 from 9 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at the Loy Norrix High School
606 E. Kilgore (off Lovers Lane) Kalamazoo, Michigan
The pharmaceutical collection is sponsored by Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The EPA says those goals were exceeded many times over.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office also in Chicago in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette MI
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment.
I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
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Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services
http://www.kalcounty.com/hcs
Kalamazoo Cnty. Enviro. Health Bureau
http://www.kalcounty.com/eh/index.htm
Kalamazoo County:
http://www.kalcounty.com
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EPA:
http://www.epa.gov/ppcp
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EPA Region 5 Office Chicago, Ill.
http://www.epa.gov/region5
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
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Kalamazoo Southwest Michigan First:
http://www.southwestmichiganfirst.com/index.cfm
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Kalamazoo Downtown Central City:
http://www.central-city.net
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Kalamazoo Wikimedia:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo%2C_Michigan
http://www.kalamazooriver.net
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http://www.kalamazoopublicschools.com/education/school/schoo l.php?sectionid=24
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Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i Community) of Interfaith Resources Special Ideas website:
http://www.interfaithresources.com
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1-847-733-3559 (wk)
Interfaith Resources
P.O. Box 9
511 Diamond Rd
Heltonville, IN
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The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge removed a huge amount of electronic waste and
The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge removed a huge amount of electronic waste and pharmaceuticals from eight states.
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills.
These goals were exceeded many times over.
A few examples:
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In Milwaukee, WI: 32 tons of electronic waste and 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals were turned in.
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At the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin near Green Bay: Approx. 4 tons of e-waste was collected plus thousands of pounds of other trash cleaned from reservation Tribal members turned in ver 23 pounds of medicines including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries.
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In Traverse City, MI: Over 28,750 pounds (over 12.5 tons) of computers and other e-waste was collected.
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The electronic waste is recycled, and the pharmaceuticals are incinerated in state-of-the-art EPA -license facilities.
So why is this important?
The old and broken electronics - like computers, cell phones and TVs - contain heavy metals that can leach into the groundwater if dumped into landfills.
The unused pharmaceuticals can end up in your drinking water if they are flushed or poured down the drain.
That's because most wastewater treatment facilities are not designed to remove chemicals from these pharmaceuticals including hormones, narcotics, seizure medication and many more - that end up back in your drinking water.
In an April 2008 press conference in Milwaukee, EPA and other officials explained why the Great Lakes Challenge and similar projects are important to protect the environment and your health.
Pharmaceutical chemicals are sent back out into the Great Lakes, rivers and other places were people recreate and are the intakes for drinking water.
Studies show that the chemicals are appearing in the nation's drinking water in small amounts - the long term effects are not known - however they have been linked to mutations in fish and other wildlife.
Also - these medicines can be stolen, diverted or accidently ingested by children - if they languish in your medicine cabinet.
Around the country many e-waste and pharmaceutical take back programs have been developed by governments and local businesses.
Please check with your local officials to find out details for your area.
Because every day should be Earth Day.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office also in Chicago in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette MI
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal protect and defend the environment" said EHI founder Rev Jon Magnuson of Marquette Michigan
I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
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Supers:
Bill Graffin
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Voice of:
Dr. Susan E. Boehme
EPA Coastal Sediment Specialist
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
EPA Milwaukee Medicine Collection Photos/Video by Dr. Susan Boehme
EPA Milwaukee e-waste video by John Perrecone
Bharat Mathur
EPA deputy regional administrator
EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago
Tom Barrett
Milwaukee Mayor
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EPA Region 5 Office Chicago, Illinois
http://www.epa.gov/region5
EPA Flow of the River blog final post:
http://flowoftheriver.epa.gov/greatlakeschallenge/2008/05/so -long-and-tha.html
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative:
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
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City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works
Rick Meyers, Recycling Manager
414-286-2334
Milwaukee DPW
http://www.mpw.net
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Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
Steve Jacquart
414-225-2138
MMSD
http://www.mmsd.com
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Traverse City, Michigan
Kim Duane Elliott
231-995-6075
Grand Traverse County Resource Recovery:
http://www.co.grand-traverse.mi.us/departments/resource_reco very.htm
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Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i Community) of Interfaith Resources - Special Ideas:
http://www.interfaithresources.com
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City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin DPW collects about 32 tons of e-waste collection in EPA Great
City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin DPW collects about 32 tons of e-waste collection in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
Hundreds of Milwaukee residents dropped off electronics as nearly 32 tons of e-waste was collected during the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW) kept things organized and flowing smoothly as cars lined up to drop off electronics for recycling.
The collection site off-loaded an average of three cars per minute.
The electronics are often called e-waste or e-scrap.
Officials say 706 cars dropped off electronics at the collection site located in a large parking lot south of the Italian Community Center just west of the Summerfest Grounds.
This collection site was within eyeshot of Lake Michigan near the Henry Maier Festival Park better known as the Summerfest Grounds where the world's largest music festival is held.
The one-day collection event, organized by the City of Milwaukee DPW, was held on April 26, 2008
More than two thirds of the collection involved computers and related equipment.
The DPW collected 643 computer monitors weighing over ten tons, that's 21,188 pounds of computer monitors.
Residents dropped off 338 televisions weighing nearly 13, 200 pounds, that's over 5 tons of TVs from city of Milwaukee homes.
Other computer related equipment turned in included nearly 15,100 pounds of personal computers, that's over 7 tons of PCs alone.
Nearly 5 tons of computer printers were turned in, that adds up to 9,148 pounds of printers.
Eight percent of the collection, nearly 5,000 pounds, involved miscellaneous e-waste like cell phones and other electronic items.
The challenge was important because scrap electronics are the fastest growing segment of municipal solid waste stream.
Electronic waste or e-scrap may contain hazardous materials including lead, mercury and heavy metals that can pose a risk to human and environmental health through the release of toxins into the air and water.
During a press conference, EPA, DPW and other Milwaukee officials said the recycling of electronics is needed to avoid unwanted pollution and divert waste from the landfills.
EPA officials called the challenge a great success, adding it's a win-win situation for the public and for the Great Lakes ecosystem..
The challenge was "an easy for everyone to take part in protecting the Great Lakes."
The EPA awarded grants to numerous cities participating in the challenge including the city of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said the "recycling televisions and computers reduces the risks of toxins contained in these products being released into our air and water."
Event partners included the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, city of Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW), Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, the Italian Community Center, Midwest Computer Recyclers and WISN-TV.
The contact is Rick Meyers with the City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works. Call Meyers at 414-286-2334
The Earth Healing Initiative thanks our local interfaith liaison in Milwaukee.
He's Rev. Brad Brown, campus pastor at Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry - in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
There was a second successful challenge collection event in the Milwaukee area.
On Saturday April 19, 2008, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) held its third annual Medicine Collection Day.
Named "A prescription for clean water and safe kids," the pharmaceutical collections were held in Milwaukee, Racine, Ozaukee, and Washington counties.
The MMSD distributed nearly 200,000 postcards promoting the event that has been widely publicized by area media.
The Earth Healing Initiative distributed the final 5,000 cards to interfaith contacts in the Milwaukee area.
The Milwaukee event was among about 100 projects involving hundreds of communities across eight states around the Great Lakes basin that participated in the EPA Earth Day 2008 challenge.
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office also in Chicago in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal protect and defend the environment" said EHI founder Rev Jon Magnuson of Marquette Michigan.
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(Keshena, Wisconsin) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of
(Keshena, Wisconsin) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
This is the second of several videos explaining the numerous MITW projects including teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture, cleaning up the reservation, and replacing gang symbols with Native American art.
In part two, the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative looks at the sturgeon education classes.
The tribe was creative as it added other facets to the challenge like teaching the children about their culture and the close relationship to the earth and its many lakes and streams.
All classes at the tribal school taught the students about the sturgeon, that is a vital part of Menominee legend and heritage, said Joe Awanahopay, language arts instructor at the Menominee tribal school.
Called the protectors of Menominee wild rice, the sturgeon used to spawn on the reservation until a man made dam blocked the route so the sturgeon could not reach their ancestral spawning grounds.
Earth Week tribal school classes applied subjects like math, history and others to different aspects of the life cycle, biology, habitat, legends, current/past spawning grounds and the cultural and practical value of the sturgeon, an important fish to the Menominee people since the dawn of their tribe.
"The sturgeon are a historic importance to our people," Awanahopay said.
"Since the beginning of time, our people have relied upon the sturgeons for various reasons including for food and scraping hides."
"In our legends, the sturgeon are the protectors of our wild rice," said Awanahopay of the slow-growing giant fish known for its thick hide and rubbery snout whose uses and related regulations have sometimes pitted white fishermen against American Indians.
"We have been engaging the students in the culture, language, science and the social studies of what the sturgeon mean to our people."
"In the science department they have been studying the anatomy and the physiology of the sturgeon," Awanahopay said. "In the language arts department they are looking at the sturgeon habitats and what the effects of pollution are."
"In social studies they are looking at the different migrations, the geography, the path the sturgeon used to take to come to their home here - their traditional spawning grounds on the Menoninee Indian reservation," he said. "Because of two dams that are here now south of our reservation, sturgeon are no longer able to come home here to their ancestral spawning grounds."
The tribal school students are immersed in Menominee culture and learn to speak the language and its meaning.
This was applied to the sturgeon lessons.
"In the language and culture room, I focus on the historic importance and the legends of the sturgeon and how these things were passed down from one generation to another generation and why it's important for our youth to hang on to that," Awanahopay said.
The students learn "to look forward into the future with the knowledge of the sturgeon, but yet hang onto their spiritual and cultural heritage that is so rich."
The tribal school students have a vast reservoir of sturgeon knowledge that the elders are happy to pass on.
"We are so fortunate to have so many elders that we still work with that are able to give us this knowledge and pass it from one generation to the next, despite all of the forced assimilation and the changes in our youth, who are trying to make their way in modern society yet integrate the traditions with the technology in today's world Awanahopay said.
Sponsors include the tribe's Community Resource Center, Menominee County Police, Menominee Tribal Police, Tribal Clinic Wellness Program (Maehnowesekiyah), Probation and Parole, Community Recycling Project, Recreation Department, EarthHealing.org and the U.S. Post Office in Keshena.
This video is possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office in Chicago, in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI. The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan.
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Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin:
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov
MITW Tribal School:
http://mts.bia.edu/
College of Menominee Nation
http://www.menominee.edu
Earth Healing Initiative Keshena, WI page:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/keshena.html
Earth Healing Initiative:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org
Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Bah'i Community) of Interfaith Resources - Special Ideas website:
http://www.interfaithresources.com
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The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmac
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
This is the first of several vidoes explaining the tribes numerous projects that included cleaning up the reservation, replacing gang symbols with Native American art, teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture.
In part one, the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative looks at the many recycling projects of the College of Menominee nation.
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(Keshena, WI) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena is being praised for its massive cleanup projects during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge - involving over 100 projects across eight states that comprise the Great lakes basin.
Other tribal projects during the challenge included the clean up of two reservation communities by tribal school students, The Menominee Teen Court Panel, and many other volunteers.
All classes at the tribal school taught the students about the sturgeon, that is a vital part of Menominee legend and heritage.
Called the protector guardian of Menominee wild rice, the sturgeon used to spawn on the reservation until a man made dam blocked the route so the sturgeon could not reach their ancestral spawning grounds.
The students also whitewashed gang graffiti at a skateboard park replacing it with American Indian art.
Adults participated in the challenge in a big way - as the tribe's Solid Waste and Recycling Department held curbside e-waste collections during Earth week 2008 - and all month accepted e-waste at the transfer station.
Native American and other students also made garbage monsters at the Keshena Public Schools with help from their parents using common every day trash from home. The students made a presentation on how to be reuse stuff they normally thrown in the trash like plastic jugs.
More than four tons of e-waste and other recyclables was removed from the reservation during April.
Over 23 pounds of medicines were turned in including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries.
The collection is among numerous Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW) projects that are part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that runs through the end of April.
Sponsors of MITW Earth Week projects include the tribe's Community Resource Center, Menominee County Police, Menominee Tribal Police, Tribal Clinic Wellness Program (Maehnowesekiyah), Probation and Parole, Community Recycling Project, Recreation Department, EarthHealing.org and the U.S. Post Office in Keshena.
Overseeing the pharmaceutical collection was Heidi Cartwright, a part-time Manawa police officer and college police science instructor.
While hosting the collection, the college's Implementing Sustainable Development class found out they won the National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant through Coca-Cola, said professor William Van Lopik, Ph.D.
"One of premises of the class is to do things, not just talk about what we are going to do and how the world is going to be changed, but having students do things," Dr. Van Lopik said.
The grant pays for 50 recycling bins.
The class has participated in the ten-week Recycle Mania project two years in a row that involves weighing recyclables as they leave the building. This year, the class ranked 136 out of 200 colleges and universities with 8 pounds of recyclables per person, beating out Ohio State and Georgetown, Van Lopik said.
The MITW held curbside pickup of electronics during Earth Week. A couple thousand pounds of electronics were turned in at the MITW transfer station since April 1. The total is expected to reach several tons.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office, also in Chicago, in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan.
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Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin official website - homepage:
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov
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MITW Tribal School website:
http://mts.bia.edu/
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College of Menominee Nation
http://www.menominee.edu
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Earth Healing Initiative Keshena, WI page:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/keshena.html
Earth Healing Initiative:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org
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