Decatur Electronics Recycling - March 27

Recycle your old electronics at Decatur High School on Saturday, March 27, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.

The items you drop off will be dismantled for parts, which will either be reused or recycled by a private company. The following will not be accepted: vacuum cleaners, microwaves, light fixtures, lamps and household appliances.

Household batteries as well as clean styrofoam blocks and peanuts will also be accepted.

TVs will be accepted, but require payment of $10 cash (exact change).

• More about the spring electronics recycling in Decatur 
• Map to the recycling event

Eco-friendly umbrellas

While reading E-Magazine online, I noticed a short piece on umbrellas mostly made from recycled items. One is the Coby Eco Umbrella, available from Crate and Barrel online.

Even better is that if you have installed the GoodSearch toolbar and have specified Decatur Cooperative Ministries as the charitable organization that your searches support, DCM will get 2.5% of your purchase cost donated to them.

It's a nice Win-Win situation.

Greener bulletins

Starting today, Avondale Pattillo UMC is using recycled paper for our Sunday Worship bulletins. Onward!

The Greening of Businesses

The more consumers and groups (such as churches) ask for products that help protect the environment, the more businesses will respond. A case in point is office product businesses. While searching online today, I noticed that both OfficeMax and Office Depot ffer 100% recycled paper that is acid free and produced without using chlorine bleaching.

But businesses are starting to do more...

• Office Depot now even has a "Buy Green" section of its web site.
• Staples has a EcoEasy page about its recycling programs.

As a bonus, I also noticed that my GoodSearch toolbar informed me that the local DCM charity gets 2-3% donation for sales through them!

So ask for what you'd really like from businesses. Email them about eco-friendly products that you don't see offered by them. Be part of the solution to waste and pollution.