Good morning readers,

It feels weird posting on a Monday morning. I’m used to updating this on Sunday nights. Like any normal college student this last week was crazy. I put together a story on green foods and products and ran into some difficult people for interviews but got the job done. That’s all I can ask for.

I interviewed Mike Elton, the store director for Sunflower Market, and without asking a question regarding recycling he told me he recycles in his household.

“I try to buy products, like recycled cartons,” Elton said. “I recycle my newsprint and my cans and bottles.”

I know it sounds like basic recycling but hey every little bit helps. I thought to myself if he works at a place like Sunflower Market, I hope he recycles. Just kidding.

I also interviewed Joanna Kewin, the office manager at Destech, said she’d love to recycle more when her and her husband Sean get a house.

I found a couple of new websites on recycling that might interest you folks. If you get a chance, check them out. The first one I found is called The Green Girl Recycling Services. This company is out of Colorado and they go out and pick up your recycling. On the main page I noticed they pick up wood pallets and I don’t think I’ve mentioned anything about wood recycling on this blog. Unfortunately when you click on it, it says, “More info soon.” In the “About us section,” there’s information on various ways to recycle and how to prepare the items.

This is a list of what this company takes and what they don’t. Here are some items I thought were interesting. If you want to look at the whole list the site is:

http://thegreengirl.com/about.html

Hard-to-Recycle Items:1. Packing Peanuts-tied in plastic bag, books, sneakers, small scrap metals, clothing, computer components and loose plastic bags.

The following is a list of all of the items that The Green Girl recycles and how to prepare them for recycling.
Glass:
Jars and bottles only (Green, white and brown).
No dishes, mirrors, light bulbs, window glass, auto glass or drinking glasses
Please rinse glass out well, labels o.k.

Cans/Steel/Aluminum
Aluminum, tin and steel cans (rinse please)
Aluminum foil (please rinse if soiled)
Aluminum pie pans and go-to containers (rinsed)
No scrap metal with the aluminum please

Once again I recommended looking at the whole list.

This was a little less than what I’ve wanted to address but there’s always next week. This week I’ll look around this site called freecycle.org. Until then take care folks and have a relaxing week.