The
West Geauga
Kiwanis will
be hosting
a paint the
fence party to
spruce up the
Recycle
Park.
Rain date or
continuation
if not
completed is
Sat Jul 9th.
Please
register
here to
reserve your
brush &
bucket
(roller/pan)
at
wgkiwanis.org.
We
will be using
water-based
stain and
will provide
plastic
gloves, 9”
paint roller
handle &
paint
tray. We
will provide a
9” roller if
you can bring
your own
handle and/or
tray to help
us out
equipment-wise.
1st Annual
Chesterland
Volunteer
Community
Cleanup Day
Please
pledge to
participate with
your family and
friends! Clean
up litter
and
debris along major
neighborhood roads,
rights of ways,
public areas and
parks.
Meet
at the Chester
Townhall at 9am
where we will
provide you with use
of gloves,
grabber,
safety vest and
collection
containers and get
assigned with others
to an
area
to cleanup.
Chester
Town Hall
12701 Chillicothe Rd
Saturday June 4th,
2022
9am-Noon
*Rain
date Sun June 5th
Two
ways to
participate. As
a group on Saturday,
on your own schedule
to
do
your own street, or
both
If
you do your own street
before June 4th, you
won’t have access to
any of
the
supplies/tools
provided at the main
event, but hold onto
your collected trash
and
recyclables.
Bring them to the June
4th main event to have
your collection
efforts
recorded and disposed
of. Please no
household waste, just
the litter you
Save
the date (and your
recyclables).
Kiwanis is again
providing Electronics
and Scrap Metal
Recycling along with
Document Shredding.
Clean out
your house, garage and
filing cabinets of
unwanted items and
responsibly recycle
them.
Anything Electronic,
anything Metal and any
personal
Documents. Bicycles
will be repurposed.
This (and Leave
& Take below) are
community events
free to all with no
residency requirement,
provided by the
Kiwanis Club of West
Geauga. Anyone
interested in
volunteering to help
either event, joining
Kiwanis or need more
details, please
contact Ken Mantey
440-729-2869 or visitwgkiwanis.org.
This
is an example of
alternative recycling
used at other
successful recycling
communities.
Instead of leaving
that lawn chair or
little tykes house by
the dumpsters at the
Recycle Park hoping it
will find a good home
– save them and bring
them to the Leave
& Take
Event. Whether
we’re decluttering or
down-sizing, we all
have good things we
don’t want to just
throw away.
Students getting their
1st place,
young families just
starting to grow would
love some of the stuff
we have too much
of. The
most efficient R in
recycling is
Re-Use. Try it.
WG
Kiwanis together with
the Chesterland
Recycling Committee
built the Recycle Park
in 2015 on Rt 306 with
$29K funding by the
Township
Trustees. The
previous
location of
the recycling bins by
the town hall was a
serious safety concern
as they were in the
path of the fire,
emergency and service
vehicles. As avid
recyclers we all had
experiences where we
paid for curbside
recycling only to see
the waste haulers use
the same truck to haul
both garbage and recyclables, or have heard
or seen other evidence
that recycling was not
really taking place.
We wanted to see
recycling in our
community to be done
responsibly and right – following the lead
of the progressives on
the East and West
coasts. We
mid-westerners could
successfully clean,
sort and recycle as
the best ofthem.
The
Recycle Park is a Not
Dump
However,
it is a learning
curve. We all need to
learn what IS and what
IS NOT recyclable. The
single stream bins at
the Recycle Park allow
co-mingling of
different recyclables.
But just throwing
something into the
bins does not make it
recyclable. They are
also not WISH bins as
“I wish this to be
recyclable”.
You
must read the signs on
the bins to see what
IS acceptable: Rinsed
clean bottles, cans,
foil and steel trays
and plastic containers
– but only plastic
containers that carry
the numbers 1-7
stamped on them with
the recycle icon. If
NO recycle icon, or it
does not include the
numbers 1-7, the
plastic item IS NOT
recyclable at this
time, do not throw in
the bins. Take it home
with you and throw it
out in your garbage
can.
Do
NOT leave items
outside the bins. That
is equivalent to and
fineable as littering.
Collect
your recyclables in
any container you
wish, but empty the
contents and take that
container back with
you. Plastic Bags are
contaminants that jam
the recycling
equipment, cause
costly downtime and
reduces the value of
what is trying to be
recycled. Plastic
bags can and are
successfully recycled
(e.g. TREX composite
decking) separately at
the collection bin
outside of GiantEagle.
Kiwanis
Club of WG Yearly
Shredding &
Recycling Events
Every
year since 2007
(except 2015 when we
were building the
Recycle Park) Kiwanis
Club of WG has
provided yearly events
to bridge the gap in
what can be
successfully recycled
in our community. Our
drives now collect:
- Document
Shredding of
identity sensitive
content (which then isrecycled)
- Electronics (useable
items are refurbished
and donated to local
schools and
non-profits).
- Scrap
Metal (which
is mined for value
metals and pays
for theevent)
- Bicycles (partners
with Ohio City Bicycle
Co-Op to provide youth
through the “Earn A
Bike” program” and
awarded to refugees
with needed
dependable and inexpensive
transportation.
Gold
Mining
If
done correctly, there
is money in recycling.
WG Kiwanis has been
paying for this
community event by
mining the value
metals that can be
found in the scrap
metal brought in for
housecleaning. The
first step is to
separate ferrous
(magnetic) metals from
non-ferrous
(non-magnetic) metals.
The non-ferrous metals
such as aluminum,
copper, brass, and
lead command higher
scrap metal prices
than the ferrous
metals (steel &
iron). The better
the metals can be
separated and clean
of dissimilar metals
or other materials
such as plastic and
wood, they command
higher “clean”
cents/pound vs lower
“dirty”
cents/pound. It
is a labor intensive
process but our event
volunteers identify
metals that can be
harvested from
appliances and
discarded items by
disassembling them.
The Boy Scouts have
been very
successful and adept in these skills. If
you would like to try
your own hand at
“mining” (children 8th grade
or older only with
parent supervision) or
joining the Kiwanis,
please contactus
Electronic
waste,
commonly referred to
as e-waste,
is one of
the fastest growing
segments in the
municipal solid waste
stream. Although
nearly 100 percent of
e-waste is recyclable,
the current recycling
rate of e-waste is not
promising at 12.5percent..
What
is so bad about E
waste?
When
electronics end up in
landfills, toxins
leach into the soil
and water. E-Waste
affects nearly every
system in the human
body because they
contain a plethora of
toxic components
including Mercury,
Lead, Cadmium,
Polybrominated Flame
Retardants, BariumandLithium. The
irony is that these
special metals are in
limited supply as
natural resources, and
would represent a huge
cost savings to
reclaim them ratherthan the expense and energy
of mining, extracting
and smelting them down
from raw materials.
How
much e waste is thrown
away each year?
20
to 50 million metric
tons of e-waste are
disposed worldwide
every year. Cell
phones and other
electronic items
contain high amounts
of precious metals
like gold or silver.
Americans dump phones
containing over $60
million in
gold/silver every
year.
What
should we do with our
old electronics?
1. Don't
trash them - we should
never throw e-waste in
thetrash!
2. Pass
them on for reuse....
3. Recycle
them (Kiwanis event)....
4. Find
a good e-waste
recycler(RET3).
5. Best
Buystores
6. Geauga
Trumbull Solid Waste
District Household
HazardousWaste
drives
7. Do
a cell phone recycling
drive and fundraiser
in yourschool.
8. Learn
to fix broken gadgets
yourself
Where
can I Recycle…?
Our
aim is to research and
select vendors to
provide the best
no-brainer recycling
of your unwanted
items. The
following provides
some background on our
selection criteria.
Feel free to visit
their websites to hear
their stories and what
they have tooffer:
Provides
staff to unload your
documents out of your
vehicle, placing them
in secure trucks to be
taken back to their
facility for
environmental offsite
shredding. No burning
diesel and fumes from
an idle shredder,
minimizes wait time
with far greater
capacity and
throughput while
avoiding potential
jamming, breakdown and
backlog issues with
on-site shredders.
Electronics
Recycling by RET3 Job
Corp
Ret3.org 216-361-9991 1814
East 40th Street
Cleveland, OH 44103
- Refurbish,
Reuse, Recycle –
dispose of E-waste in
sustainable andeco-
friendlyway
- One
of the few companies
that accepts and responsibly recycles oldTV’s
- Recycling
Industry
Certified
- Charitable -
reuses serviceable
parts to refurbish
thousands of computers
every year for
distribution to
schools and non-profitorganizations.
- Unusable
equipment is
subsequently
de-manufactured and
the individual
components are
separated for
reuse, and the
balance sold as raw
materials to Original
Equipment
Manufacturers. This
includes glass,
plastics, metals, ink
cartridges, cardboard,
circuit boards and
other rawmaterials.
- Trusted
– hard drives and other physical media is
scrubbed or physically
destroyed to ensure
your data is kept safe
- Committed
No Landfill guarantee
means all electronic
waste that comes
through our facility
will either be reused
or harvested for parts
or recycled and will
never see a landfill
- RET3
Job Corp. is a
non-profit
organization dedicated
to Refurbishing,
Reusing, and Recycling
computer and
electronic equipment
while Educating and Training recipients and the
transitional workforce
to repair, upgrade,
and use computers;
thus helping to shrink
the digital divide and
create a more
productive and
technologically adept
workforce in northeastOhio.
Metal
Recycling by DeMilta
Iron & Metal
Demiltairon.com 440-749-0530
3911 Ben Hur Ave,
Willoughby, OH 44094
- Delivers
roll-off bins one day prior to the event
- Returns
for pickup immediately
after the event to
eliminate weekend“losses”
OCBC
is a non-profit,
volunteer-driven
cooperative bicycle
education center
offering riding
and repair classes; refurbished used
bikes for
sale or rent; hands-
on learning and shop
credit for volunteering;
and public shop use,
advice, and
assistance.
