The greening of my condo building

The AIRE team's "Greening Your Condo Association" seminars and outreach are bearing fruit! Some enterprising folks from my condo building in Clarendon organized a Green Fair, held last night.

What fun! They proved that learning how to go green can be educational and fun, too! When I walked into the building last night after work, the lobby was abuzz. The booths and displays included several of my Arlington County colleagues, who brought CFL demos (and gave away free bulbs) and useful info on recycling, how to buy green power, etc.

Other booths included green-grown wine and coffee (free samples - yum!), a green cleaning service,  Arlington's new "Car-Free Diet," and more. Our building engineer even had a little display! The festive atmosphere made for lively conversation and a fun, communal spirit.

Folks seemed to be very interested in learning how to recycle more and got all sorts of good, practical advice from Jan Guastaferro of our County recycling team. We do recycle in our building, so we're off to a good start, and we can do more. What are other condo buildings doing?

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Diana Sun is Director of Communications for Arlington County, a walking commuter, a new bicylist, and a happy resident of the urban village of Clarendon.

Comments

[Rich]

Here's something that is so easy and makes so much sense. Everyone will pretty much need to purchase cartridges so...I came across information through a business customer and looked further into it. Here is what I found, "
Over 700 million cartridges were thrown away world-wide in 2003 - and since more and more people use inkjet cartridges this amount will continue to grow year after year.
Empty cartridges contain residual toner powder, ink, a plastic casing, aluminum and other parts. These parts are all non-biodegradable and they will take more than 1000 years to decompose in landfill sites.
The remanufacturing of cartridges as an alternative to producing new ones currently reduces world demand of oil by 300,000 barrels and saves 17,000 tons of aluminum as well as 10,000,000 tons of timber. Besides helping to reduce carbon emissions, a major cause of global warming, it conserves resources and reduces waste.
1.5 pints of crude oil are needed to produce one cartridge. In the last 6 months alone inkjet cartridge recycling has saved more than 50 million liters of oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989."
Wow, so my whole point is this client twotonellc.com remanufacturers ink and toner cartridges and considering the above information it only makes common sense to buy remanufactured ink and toner cartridges. You save money, get a higher yield (more prints) and save the environment.

[Rich]

Here's something that is so easy and makes so much sense. Everyone will pretty much need to purchase cartridges so...I came across information through a business customer and looked further into it. Here is what I found, "
Over 700 million cartridges were thrown away world-wide in 2003 - and since more and more people use inkjet cartridges this amount will continue to grow year after year.
Empty cartridges contain residual toner powder, ink, a plastic casing, aluminum and other parts. These parts are all non-biodegradable and they will take more than 1000 years to decompose in landfill sites.
The remanufacturing of cartridges as an alternative to producing new ones currently reduces world demand of oil by 300,000 barrels and saves 17,000 tons of aluminum as well as 10,000,000 tons of timber. Besides helping to reduce carbon emissions, a major cause of global warming, it conserves resources and reduces waste.
1.5 pints of crude oil are needed to produce one cartridge. In the last 6 months alone inkjet cartridge recycling has saved more than 50 million liters of oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989."
Wow, so my whole point is this client twotonellc.com remanufacturers ink and toner cartridges and considering the above information it only makes common sense to buy remanufactured ink and toner cartridges. You save money, get a higher yield (more prints) and save the environment.

[anOCgirl]

my condo building recycles but the building wastes so much energy it's ridiculous. i understand that it's somewhat chilly outside, but does the heat in the common areas really need to be set at 80 degrees? sadly, my calls to building management have gone unheeded.