Indiana Recycling Coalition

July 2011

July 2011 In this issue Resource Recycling Opening Night Reception Welcome New and Renewing IRC Members IRC Video Contest KAB K-12 Recycling Competition Recycling = Jobs Article Save the Date I Save the Date II Free School Composting Webinar Recycle Cans, Raise Money For Schools Sponsor Spotlight: Petoskey Plastics Upcoming Events July 23, “Recycle Drop […]

July 2011

In this issue

Resource Recycling Opening Night Reception

Welcome New and Renewing IRC Members

IRC Video Contest

KAB K-12 Recycling Competition

Recycling = Jobs Article

Save the Date I

Save the Date II

Free School Composting Webinar

Recycle Cans, Raise Money For Schools

Sponsor Spotlight: Petoskey Plastics

Upcoming Events

July 23, “Recycle Drop When You Shop” at Whole Foods Indianapolis & Carmel stores. Shoppers can drop off hard-to-recycle items like electronics, batteries, etc. Click here for more information including a complete listing of accepted materials.

August 12-13, Greenstock Music Festival, Brown County

August 17 & 18, Resource Recycling Conference, Indianapolis

November 12, IRC Fall Event

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IRC/NRC to Co-Host August 16 Reception

To kick off this year’s Resource Recycling conference, the IRC and NRC are co-hosting a reception at Victory Field in downtown Indianapolis on Tuesday, August 16th from 7 - 9 pm. The $25 fee includes an Indians baseball game ticket, full picnic dinner and beer (including award-winning local brew from Sun King). Please purchase tickets in advance! A very limited number of tickets will be available on August 16, for $40.

We hope you’ll join us — click here to register for the reception and/or conference. You do not need to attend the conference to buy a ticket for the reception!

For more information call the IRC offices at 317-632-5915.

Welcome Newest Members Of The IRC!

Apex Group Inc.

Warrick County SWMD

Whole Foods Market

And Thank You To Our Returning Members!

Kostas Poulakidas

Orange County SWMD

Shelby County SWMD
Vintage Tech Recyclers

Listing in the “New & Returning Members” section is voluntary. The IRC does not share its membership list or member contact information.

IRC Video Contest

“Re-conomics” is the theme of this year’s IRC America Recycles Day video contest open to Indiana middle and high school students. Students can earn prize money for creating 30 second PSAs that educate Hoosiers about how reducing, reusing and recycling are good for our economy and, more specifically:

* how Hoosier businesses, communities

and organizations save money by

reducing, reusing and/or recycling

* how new jobs can be created as a

result of recycling.

Participants will have the opportunity to receive cash prizes.

Entries will be due Tuesday, October 18th. For a complete listing of rules and regulations and registration information, click here or contact Monica Brase.

KAB Launches New K-12 Recycling Competition!

Recycle-Bowl is KAB’s friendly competition and benchmarking tool for K-12 school recycling programs to promote their waste reduction activities.

Beginning in October 2011, schools will track recyclables for four weeks then report their recycling data at the end of the competition. Prizes will be awarded according to which schools collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita per state.

For more information, click here, then keep up with the latest contest developments on the facebook page.

Recycling = Jobs

The IRC spends a great deal of time focusing on the economic benefits of recycling, including the job creation that results from new and expanded recycling programs. So we were very pleased to see the “Jobs = Recycling” article in Resource Recycling Magazine this month. The article includes great statistics, survey results, and more. Thanks to Resource Recycling for allowing us to make this article available to Recycl’IN News. Click here to see the article.

SAVE THE DATE I

The IRC’s annual fall gala will be on Saturday, November 12th. Tickets will be on sale soon!

SAVE THE DATE II

November 15th is America Recycles Day (ARD)! It is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling programs in the United States and it’s just around the corner.

ARD is a great opportunity for groups, businesses, individuals, schools or whoever to plan or participate in recycling activities. They can be as simple as organizing an aluminum can drive, or challenging as participating in the IRC’s video contest.

For more information about planning or finding an ARD event, click here.

Free School Composting Webinar

Learn how to start and maintain a school composting program! Register for NERC’s “Composting at Schools” webinar Tuesday, September 20 at 3 pm EDT. Information to be discussed includes: program set-up; benefits to the school community; curriculum; funding, labor and collection logistics; types of compost bins and bin maintenance; options for off-site composting; and more. The webinar is free.

For more information on the webinar, click here or contact Athena Lee Bradley.To register for the September 20, 2011 webinar, click here.

Recycle Cans, Raise Money For Schools

The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) is inviting schools to participate in its 2nd Annual Great American Can Roundup School Challenge. CMI is awarding monetary prizes for each state winner recycling the most aluminum cans per student and an additional monetary prize to the national winner. The contest will run from America Recycles Day (Nov. 15) to Earth Day (April 22) 2012. Click here for details regarding the contest.

Sponsor Spotlight: Petoskey Plastics

Since 1970, Petoskey Plastics has been an innovator in manufacturing b lown plastic film and bags for the automotive, recycling, food, retail, packaging and construction industries.

Petoskey first began recycling in 1978 and never stopped thinking green. Its closed loop recycling program takes post- use plastic out of the waste stream and puts it back into the products they manufacture. AND Petoskey’s Hartford City facility, where most of the recycling takes place, will soon be taking delivery of new, state-of-the-art recycling equipment that will significantly increase production capabilities and add new jobs.

Today, Petoskey is preparing to enter a whole new “green zone.”

Petoskey recently installed a meteoroligical (MET) tower at its Hartford City, Indiana recycling and manufacturing facility. The MET tower will measure wind speed, velocity a nd direction, as well as provide the first precise wind information in Blackford County. The information will also allow Petoskey Plastics to evalu ate the feasibility of wind power as well as a possible source of energy for its Hartford City operations.

With assistance from the Blackford County Economic Development Corp oration, Petoskey applied for and received funding for the wind power feasibility study through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Petoskey was one of just 68 recipients nationwide chosen to receive study grants.

Click here for more information about Petoskey Plastics.

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<p><br />- Children’s Museum Energy Summit, Indpls, 9/20, 10am 1 pm<br /> <br /></p>
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<h2><a name=”Letter from Executive Director”></a>Letter from the Executive Director</h2>
<p><br />Dear Members and Friends,<br /> <br />We are thrilled to report that in August, the Recycling Market Development Board awarded $500,000 in grants to support Indiana’s recycling infrastructure. As you’ve read here in recent months, the IRC worked with several stakeholders, including Senators Breaux and Kenley, to secure the release of these previously-frozen funds. According to administration officials, this was a one-time release of $500,000, therefore we will continue to support the use of this fund which incentivizes new green jobs and a more sustainable environment for Indiana.<br /> <br />We are also excited to tell you about our upcoming fall fundraiser, Mobius - A Celebration of Recycling with the IRC on November 6. This will be a fun, elegant evening and we hope to see you there. <br /> <br />Finally, we recently kicked-off our America Recycles Day Jr/High School video contest. Please share this exciting opportunity with all of the middle & high school students and teachers you know and don’t forget to mention the cash prizes and awards ceremony! We are looking forward to once again tapping the talent and creativity of Hoosier students to convey an import environmental message - that recycling is one of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint.<br /> <br />Details about these new developments and much more is included below. <br />As always, thank you for your support as we continue the IRC’s important work to advance source reduction, reuse, recycling and composting activities in Indiana!<br /><br />Carey Hamilton<br />Executive Director</p>
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<h2><a name=”New Member Welcome”></a>Welcome newest members of the IRC!</h2>
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<div style=”text-align: center;”>Ed Mahern<br /> Quality Printing <br />Teachers’ Treasures <br />Yellowbook<br /> <br />And Thank You To Our Returning Members!<br /> <br />Steven Boggs <br />Lori Kaplan <br /> <a title=”Washington, Indiana” href=”http://www.washingtonin.us/” target=”_blank”>The City of Washington, Indiana</a></div>
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<h2><a name=”CYCF Video Contest”></a>IRC “Curb Your Carbon Footprint” Video Contest</h2>
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<p>se prizes for their work. Prizes for middle and high school categories are as follows:</p>
<p><br /><span>1st Prize: $500</span></p>
<p>2nd Prize: $300</p>
<p>3rd Prize: $200</p>
<p>Viewers Choice: $250</p>
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<h2><a name=”Mobius”></a>Mobius - A Celebration of Recycling with the IRC</h2>
<img style=”text-align: right; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; float: right;” src=”/uploads/images/Mobius Side Bar.jpg” alt=”Inline” width=”227″ height=”197″ />You’re invited!<br /> <br />The IRC’s fall fundraiser will take place on Saturday, November 6th at the University Place Hotel & Conference Center in Indianapolis. Please plan to join us there! <br /> <br />
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<h2><a name=”Grants Announced at RMDB Meeting”></a>Grants Announced at RMDB Meeting</h2>
<img src=”file:///C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.png” alt=”” /><img style=”float: right;” src=”https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs022/1101478540901/img/109.jpg” alt=”” width=”113″ height=”150″ /><br />Four Indiana companies will receive grant dollars intended to help attract recycling industry jobs to the state. The funding represents the first grants made since the state froze the board’s funds in late 2008 to help offset state revenue shortfalls.<br /><br /><br />Bruce Burrow, Chairman of the Recycling Market Development Board (RMDB) said, “The Indiana Recycling Coalition, along with Senators Breaux and Kenley and RMDB members deserve credit for persuading officials in April to free up the funding that will assist companies to either expand operations or relocate to Indiana, thus potentially creating over 200 new full time jobs.”<br /><br />
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<h2><a name=”Congratulations, Carey!”></a>Congratulations, Carey!</h2>
<p><br />The IRC’s own Executive Director, Carey Hamilton, has signed on to serve as co-chair of the Super Bowl 2012 Sustainability Committee. We know that Carey’s work in this capacity will advance the mission of the IRC and we are thrilled that she will be leading the effort to make the 2012 Super Bowl the most sustainable Super Bowl in history!<br /> <br />In addition, Carey was recently selected to be a member of the highly competitive Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series.</p>
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<p><br /> Thank You Strategic Materials!<br /> <img style=”float: right;” src=”https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs022/1101478540901/img/115.jpg” alt=”” width=”160″ height=”163″ /><br />Thanks to Strategic Materials, the IRC is now publicized at recycling locations across central Indiana. Strategic generously funded the purchase of large IRC stickers that are now located on Strategic’s glass collection bins and are available for other recycling bins around the state. Thank you Dean Schmuhl and Strategic!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />—-<br /> IRC interns Don Brown and Andrew Pappas staffed the John Mayer concert as a part of Reverb to promote the IRC. During the day, Don had the opportunity to rub elbows with the Taco Bell Taco & Hot Sauce mascots. Lesson learned: promoting the IRC can really put you in touch with some important people!</p>
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