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America Recycles Day 2007
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
America Recycles Day Expo at City Hall
On Thursday, November 15, 2007, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the City of St. Louis celebrated America Recycles Day
with it's Third Annual America Recycles Day Expo in the City Hall Rotunda.
Open to the general public (free-of-charge), the Expo featured businesses and organizations that offered reused and
recycled content products, recyclables collection and processing services, and educational programs.
Exhibitors (and their product or service):
- EarthWays Center (provides public and classroom education about reduce, reuse, and recycle; retails reused and recycled home and garden products) http://www.earthwayscenter.org
- City of St. Louis Animal Care and Control (connects pets with new homes) http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/health/arc/adoptapet.html
Note: Feel free to bring donations of the following used (or new) items: sheets, towels, blankets, stuffed animals,
pet toys, small-lipped container lids (e.g., butter, cottage cheese, yogurt) for feeding kittens and puppies, newspaper and
shredded paper (for bedding and litter), pet carriers, litterboxes, collars, and leashes.
- Corporate Express (sells recycled content office supplies)
- St. Louis Biofuels Club (educates residents and businesses about converting organic waste to fuel) http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biodieselstl
- St. Louis Teachers' Recycle Center, Inc. (reuses industrial and household materials) http://www.stlouisteachersrecycle.homestead.com
- St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District (recycling education, technical and financial assistance) http://www.swmd.net
- Abitibi-Consolidated Inc./Paper Retriever (hauls used paper as part of school fundraising program, manufactures
recycled content paper products) http://www.paperretriever.com
- e-cycle St. Louis (reuses and recycles electronics) http://ecyclestlouis.org
- Remains, Inc. (hauls and processes used textiles)
- Pedro’s Planet, Inc. (retails recycled content office products, hauls various recyclables) http://pedrosplanet.com
- Home Eco (retails reused and recycled content home and garden products) http://www.home-eco.com
- ReSource St. Louis (reuses and recycles construction and demolition waste) http://www.resourcestlouis.org
- Gigoit, Inc. (maintains interactive database facilitating reuse of materials) http://www.gigoit.org/index.php
- EPC (reuses and recycles electronics) http://www.epcusa.com
- Smurfit-Stone Recycling Division (hauls and processes various recyclables) http://www.smurfit.com:8080/content/Products/Recycling
- Strategic Materials (hauls and processes used glass) http://www.strategicmaterials.com
- Plastic Lumber Company of America, LLC (manufactures recycled content plastic lumber) http://www.plasticlumberco.com
- Missouri Department of Conservation - Grow Native! (educates about landscaping and gardening with native plants, which can reduce use of lawn and garden chemicals) http://www.grownative.org
- Missouri Recycling Association (provides public education about reduce, reuse, recycle, and buy recycled) http://mora.org
- United States Green Building Council - St. Louis Regional Chapter (provides technical assistance and education on
reducing, reusing, recycling, and buying recycled as part of the green building process) http://chapters.usgbc.org/stlouis
- St. Louis Development Corporation (provides information about starting up and/or expanding businesses within the
City of St. Louis - targeting those related to reducing waste, reusing materials, or recycling resources) http://stlouis.missouri.org/sldc
- US GreenFiber LLC (manufactures recycled content insulation product) http://www.greenfiber.com
- The Recycle Challenge (hauls used aluminum cans as part of school fundraising program) http://www.therecyclechallenge.com
For pledging to recycle, the following attendees won the prizes listed below:
K. Wentzel - a refurbished laptop (generously donated by EPC, Inc.) with a colorful, sturdy carrying/storage bag made of reused tire rubber
C. French - a vermicomposter filled with an assortment of reused and recycled kitchen and bath products, suitable for the home or office
C. Billups - a recycled tire rubber tote containing tools to help with composting and indoor/outdoor gardening and landscaping organically
G. Carreathers - a cozy fleece blanket woven of recycled plastic
S. Donahue, R. Olelh, R. Howard, L. Wessels - each won a multicolored recycled plastic clipboard
2007 downloadable flyer PDF file
To check out past events, click on
ARD 2006 or
ARD 2005.
For questions or additional information, please e-mail the City of St. Louis Refuse Division's Recycling Program at
recycle@stlouis.missouri.org.
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