newsbriefs Recycling for
Local Jobs Your Bottle Means Jobs in this USA Campaign
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lmost everyone uses plastic bottles. And while plastic
bottle recycling is already a robust business in the Carolinas, only one of every four plastic bottles used by consumers in the two states is currently being recycled. If each of the 6.5 mil- lion households in the Carolinas recycled just two additional plas- tic bottles each week, it would generate an additional 30,000 tons of plastic each year (that is 60 million pounds!) and would create 300 new jobs. It would also keep hundreds of millions plastic bottles out of landfills and would significantly reduce the amount of plastic waste that finds its way into our rivers and ocean each year. There are several companies
in the Carolinas that use large quantities of recycled plastic to make products including pipe, fabric, fiber, carpet, new bottles and flake and pellet products. These companies currently import most of their recycled plastic supply from other states and from Latin America and Canada. The Carolinas Plastics Recycling Council (CPRC) recently launched the “Your Bottle Means Jobs” multimedia awareness effort to help increase consumer recycling of plastics. Thank you for helping protect
the environment and create jobs by recycling your plastic bottles. Please encourage others to do the same. For information, visit
www.YourBottleMeansJobs.com.
Protect Your Family and Your Business from Identity Theft
Two FREE Shred-A-Thons will be held by Orange County Solid Waste Management in conjunction with local law enforcement. • Thursday, October 12, from 10am-2pm at University Place behind the Silver Spot Theater off Willow Drive. This is a park and walk-up service.
• Saturday, October 14, from 10am to 2pm at the Recycling Drop-off site behind Home Depot at Hampton Pointe in Hillsborough, with drive-through service.
Events are restricted to residents and small businesses in Orange County and
that part of the Town of Chapel Hill in Durham County, as well as employees of the County and the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Each participant is limited to four bags or boxes of confidential paper. The types of paper are limited to confidential documents such as financial
or medical records. Non-confidential paper should be recycled in blue carts or drop off sites, not taken to the Shred-A-Thon. Leave out the magazines, envelopes, brochures, folders, and other non-confidential paper to help ensure capacity for everyone’s truly confidential paper.
If a piece of bulk mail contains financial infor-
mation such as credit card application forms, those individual papers should be separated for shredding. A name and address alone do not constitute confidential information. Incidental tape and staples are OK. Plastics, metals, digital media, and other non-paper items are not permitted. These free shredding events are sponsored by the Edward Jones office of Tom
Struckmeyer in Hillsborough, and the Local Government Federal Credit Union. For information, visit
www.orangecountync.gov/recyclin See ad on this page.
FREE * Protect Your Family, Protect Your Business, Protect the Environment * FREE
Bring those confi dential documents you no longer need (up to 4 boxes or bags)!
Safe destruction and recycling. Reduce your risk of identity theft.
Open to Orange County (and those in Durham County within Town Limits of Chapel Hill) residents, small businesses and local government employees.
10 am–2 pm, Thursday, Oct. 12 at University Place, Chapel Hill (park and walk up service)
10 am–2 pm, Saturday Oct. 14 at Hampton Pointe, Hillsborough (drive-through service)
Confi dential paper documents only. Please do not bring newspapers, magazines, plastic binders, metal or electronic media.
Information: Call 919.968.2788 or
www.orangecountync.gov/recycling
natural awakenings September 2017 11 SPONSORED BY Tom Struckmeyer, CFP®
Financial Advisor 919-644-2296
AAMS®
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