The Tulsa State Fair begins this Thursday, October 1st! This is great news for fried food junkies and 4H fans alike. However, if eating fair food and people watching among your fellow Tulsans isn't enough fair fun for you, try volunteering to be a recycling volunteer! You'll get a cool "Environmental Volunteer" t-shirt and a discount for certain food vendors. Plus, by helping to recycle at the fair, you'll be promoting environmental awareness among Oklahomans while rescuing tons of plastic bottles and aluminum cans from sitting in the landfill next to all those gnawed-on turkey legs. (None of that stuff will biodegrade in the landfill, so keep it from going in there in the first place!)
If you're interested in volunteering, contact customerservice@therecyclingrevolution.com or call us at (918) 894-2019. For basic info on our recycling service, visit The Recycling Revolution website. See you at the Fair !
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Relating recycling to politics in Tulsa
For those of us over 18 living in Tulsa, it's time to start thinking about the November mayoral elections. Tomorrow night (September 22nd) several local organizations are hosting the "Green Leaders Mayoral Forum" at the Tulsa Garden Center (2435 South Peoria) from 7-9pm.
Why is this important? Well, remember a little agreement called the Kyoto Protocol? The U.S. didn't actually sign it because it feared it would harm the economy. A few years later, the mayor of Seattle had the idea to encourage local political leaders to meet (or, in some cases, to make) environmental goals proposed by the Kyoto Protocol. What does this mean? It means that, regardless of how much we love or hate our national leaders, we have the power to take matters into our own hands. We don't have to wait for the President to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on a federal level, we can start putting its guidelines in place right now to protect our local resources and environment. In fact, in May 2007, Mayor Kathy Taylor herself signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. She was #500 of now 973 U.S. mayors who have signed it. These mayors understand that it's the work and responsibility of citizens on a local level to reduce greenhouse gases and protect natural resources.
Recycling is a very simple way to reduce greenhouse gases. According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), recycling these matericals reduces the related greenhouse gases by this percentage:
Steel cans: 100%
PET plastic: 95%
Aluminum: 79%
Glass: 55%
Newspaper: 30%
[Source: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/downloads/chapter7.pdf]
Recycling is one way that we can all help reduce greenhouse gases, and this will help Tulsa keep in step with the target set by the Kyoto protocol: 7% greenhouse gas reduction of 1990 levels by 2012. The other way we can help protect the environment is by ensuring good political leadership for the future. Hope to see you tomorrow night at the Green Leaders Mayoral Forum!
For more information on how to recycle or on setting up a program in your organization or business, you can:
Visit the website at therecyclingrevolution.com
Call us at (918) 894-2019
Write us at customerservice@therecyclingrevolution.com
Why is this important? Well, remember a little agreement called the Kyoto Protocol? The U.S. didn't actually sign it because it feared it would harm the economy. A few years later, the mayor of Seattle had the idea to encourage local political leaders to meet (or, in some cases, to make) environmental goals proposed by the Kyoto Protocol. What does this mean? It means that, regardless of how much we love or hate our national leaders, we have the power to take matters into our own hands. We don't have to wait for the President to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on a federal level, we can start putting its guidelines in place right now to protect our local resources and environment. In fact, in May 2007, Mayor Kathy Taylor herself signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. She was #500 of now 973 U.S. mayors who have signed it. These mayors understand that it's the work and responsibility of citizens on a local level to reduce greenhouse gases and protect natural resources.
Recycling is a very simple way to reduce greenhouse gases. According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), recycling these matericals reduces the related greenhouse gases by this percentage:
Steel cans: 100%
PET plastic: 95%
Aluminum: 79%
Glass: 55%
Newspaper: 30%
[Source: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/downloads/chapter7.pdf]
Recycling is one way that we can all help reduce greenhouse gases, and this will help Tulsa keep in step with the target set by the Kyoto protocol: 7% greenhouse gas reduction of 1990 levels by 2012. The other way we can help protect the environment is by ensuring good political leadership for the future. Hope to see you tomorrow night at the Green Leaders Mayoral Forum!
For more information on how to recycle or on setting up a program in your organization or business, you can:
Visit the website at therecyclingrevolution.com
Call us at (918) 894-2019
Write us at customerservice@therecyclingrevolution.com
Monday, September 14, 2009
Tomorrow night we'll be Greening the 918!
Gosh, Green Country is just brimming with information and resources on how to be green. Now we just need to get our collective act together and get down to business!
Saturday was a Green Expo at TU, this coming weekend you still have a chance to visit the first LEED certified single-family home in Tulsa (that means it's a green home), and tomorrow night is a workshop on solid waste/recycling called Greening the 918. The Recycling Revolution's own Kristen McCormick will be on the panel, so come drill her with questions about recycling. It's going to be rainy tomorrow anyway, so come on over from 5:30 to about 7:30 to see all the booths at the Central Center, 1028 E. 6th Street, by Centennial Park.
If you do (sadly) happen to miss the "Greening the 918" event and you have some questions or comments, you can always call us at (918) 894-2019, write us at customerservice@therecyclingrevolution.com, or visit our website at therecyclingrevolution.com .
Have a great week and don't forget to rinse out your steel cans before you recycle them!
Saturday was a Green Expo at TU, this coming weekend you still have a chance to visit the first LEED certified single-family home in Tulsa (that means it's a green home), and tomorrow night is a workshop on solid waste/recycling called Greening the 918. The Recycling Revolution's own Kristen McCormick will be on the panel, so come drill her with questions about recycling. It's going to be rainy tomorrow anyway, so come on over from 5:30 to about 7:30 to see all the booths at the Central Center, 1028 E. 6th Street, by Centennial Park.
If you do (sadly) happen to miss the "Greening the 918" event and you have some questions or comments, you can always call us at (918) 894-2019, write us at customerservice@therecyclingrevolution.com, or visit our website at therecyclingrevolution.com .
Have a great week and don't forget to rinse out your steel cans before you recycle them!
Monday, September 7, 2009
Environmental Appraisal
The Recycling Revolution was founded out of a need for a more thorough recycling service in the Tulsa metro area. Yes, there's the city's curbside recycling service, and yes, there are paper recycling companies. But no one was available to pick up the tons (literally!) of glass from bars or the loads of steel cans from restaurants. Filling that gap is our goal as we, as well as society as a whole, recognize the value of the environment.
A recent article in The Economist (Environmental Values, April 13th, 2009) states that about a third of the world's GNP (gross national product) can be attributed to the environment's coasts and marine ecosystems. Basically, if it weren't for all the tourism, recreational activities, and hunting that goes on along the coasts and lakes, the world would be $20 trillion poorer. Ouch! Out of this realization, people started asking why the government isn't putting an actual price tag on all these natural resources to protect them, which in turn protects the economy. It's an interesting idea, albeit hard to swallow if it means higher taxes or fees for outdoor activities!
If we could actually see the value of nature as we walk by, imagine how it would change our perspective. If each tree you passed had a tag for $500, would you use less paper in the office? Or if each field filled with virgin metal ore had a big sign reading $20,000, would you be more likely to recycle all those pop cans after the party? Once we start calculating the REAL cost of products, including the environmental cost, we appreciate those items much more. The Recycling Revolution tries its best to live by that idea; we're doing what we can to help protect the natural resources we still have. Everything has its own hidden cost...better to pay a small price now to conserve it than a much bigger price down the road to rebuild it from scratch!
For more information about The Recycling Revolution, visit our website at therecyclingrevolution.com or call us at (918) 894-2019. Thanks!
A recent article in The Economist (Environmental Values, April 13th, 2009) states that about a third of the world's GNP (gross national product) can be attributed to the environment's coasts and marine ecosystems. Basically, if it weren't for all the tourism, recreational activities, and hunting that goes on along the coasts and lakes, the world would be $20 trillion poorer. Ouch! Out of this realization, people started asking why the government isn't putting an actual price tag on all these natural resources to protect them, which in turn protects the economy. It's an interesting idea, albeit hard to swallow if it means higher taxes or fees for outdoor activities!
If we could actually see the value of nature as we walk by, imagine how it would change our perspective. If each tree you passed had a tag for $500, would you use less paper in the office? Or if each field filled with virgin metal ore had a big sign reading $20,000, would you be more likely to recycle all those pop cans after the party? Once we start calculating the REAL cost of products, including the environmental cost, we appreciate those items much more. The Recycling Revolution tries its best to live by that idea; we're doing what we can to help protect the natural resources we still have. Everything has its own hidden cost...better to pay a small price now to conserve it than a much bigger price down the road to rebuild it from scratch!
For more information about The Recycling Revolution, visit our website at therecyclingrevolution.com or call us at (918) 894-2019. Thanks!
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