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Conservation
Magic Hedge/Montrose Workday
Leader: DAVID PAINTER - EMAIL
When: Saturday, April 14th, 9:00AM - 12:00PM.
Where: Magic Hedge at Montrose.
Friendly Towers Recycling Update
Recycling Saves Us $$$$$$
From Ted Jindrich
We are now saving $435.00 per month which totals $5220.00 each year due to our recycling. If we continue to increase our recycling we may be able to save more.
How are we doing it?
When the High School had their problem solving week one of the groups focused on recycling. They asked me if we save money recycling and I said no, but then thought for a minute and said, good question I will look into that. After observing things I realized with our increase in recycling that our open dumpster is often half empty when it is picked up. So we have cut out 2 pick ups per week. If this goes well we will drop another pick up and increase our recycling pick up. (The recycling pick ups are less costly) To help facilitate this we need to remember to use the compactor for household, kitchen and dining room trash. If there are problems with the compactor give (Ted Jindrich) a call and He will look into it.
Junk Mail
There is a mail bin kept behind the front desk for convenient recycling of junk mail. Please make use of this it makes a difference.
Paper items from each floor.
We recently started collecting paper items for recycling on 7th floor. I have been surprised by the quantity of paper goods accumulated, cereal boxes, mail, scrap paper, TP rolls, paper towel rolls, magazines, paper bags, you name it. This is something that takes a few people from the floor to spear head and then keep up with.
Glass
We hope to have an alternative for glass recycling pick up in the near future.
Batteries
There are containers for batteries by the freight elevator on each floor with 5th floors container by Davicks room 515. This is for household batteries but you have some other type such as cordless drill batteries give them to me and I will take them in.
Volunteer Needed
We could also use a volunteer to drive none recyclable hazardous items for proper disposal. These are items such as paint, computers / electronics, florescent bulbs and so on. They would need to be driven to the collection center which is just North West of downtown.
What do we recycle?
I am attaching the list of items our company accepts for recycling. Please do not put items in that are not listed.
Recyclable / Non-Recyclable Materials
Acceptable Recyclable Materials
**Place all acceptable materials into designated recycling container**
Fiber Materials Commingled Materials (No Bag Needed) (Place in a Clear or Blue Bag) Bond Paper (white & colored) Aluminum Cans Calculator Tape
Steel cans
Computer Paper (Plain White or Colored Bars) Bi- Metal Cans Printer Pin Wheel Perforation Tabs Plastic Water Bottles
Envelops, Liquid Detergent, Shampoo Bottles
Junk Mail Milk, Water, Juice Plastic bottles,
Legal Pad Paper, Letterhead/Stationary,
Magazines,
Newspaper
Photocopy Paper, Scratch Paper, Telephone Messages, Typing Paper, Cardboard
More Good News, We can now add glass to the list of items we can put in our recycling dumpsters. Please pass this info on to your neighbors.
“When in doubt, leave it out”
Non-Recyclable
Food or Beverage Waste Candy Wrappers
Carbon Paper
Floor Sweepings Non-Paper Packing Material Rubber Bands
Stickers/Labels
Tissue Products (e.g.. napkins) Vacuum Cleaner Bags
Plastic Packaging Wrap
More Good News, We can now add glass to the list of items we can put in our recycling dumpsters. Please pass this info on to your neighbors. Thanks for taking the time to recycle, Ted
Thanks for reading all of this and helping us to be responsible with
our waste.
Feel free to send me any suggestions.
Ted Jindrich
Why Christians in Conservation?
There are at least four good reasons for Christians to be involved in Conservation.
Love
Christians believe that God made the world. When we make something, whether it be as life-changing as giving birth, or as quick as sketching a picture, we care about what happens to our creation. So it's easy for us to understand that God cares deeply about all his creation. The Bible makes this clear in many passages, e.g. Psalm 50, verses 10 & 11, where God says "every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine". Studying, thankfully enjoying and caring for the world that God has so wonderfully made is an obvious way for us to show our love for him.
Obedience
Christians are called to obey God in every part of their lives. In the Bible, we find that the first wish expressed by God, concerning men and women, was that they would rule over "the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground" in a way that reflects his own image. Not just his power, but his unselfish love, mercy and tender compassion. Tragically, because we are human, and sinful, our rule has often been characterised by cruelty, greed and short-sightedness, but this was clearly not God's intention. If we desire to obey God, then we must look for ways in which we can be good and responsible stewards of the natural world.
Justice
The environment is an issue of justice. Often it is the poor who suffer first when the environment is damaged.
Hope
Those who care about the environment can easily become depressed. The news is so often profoundly disturbing: the destruction of forests, the disintegration of coral reefs, the extinction of species, over-fishing, global warming and a multitude of other disasters and gloomy forecasts can cause us to wonder if there is any point in even trying to take action. But the Bible provides much-needed grounds for hope. The Old Testament prophets Isaiah and Hosea foretell a time of human and environmental harmony. In the New Testament, Jesus is described not just as the Saviour of fallen mankind, but as the one for whom all creation was made - and as the one through whom all creation will one day "be liberated from its bondage to decay" (Colossians 1 verses 15-17; Romans 8 verses 19-23). We do not know how all this will be accomplished, but we are given motivation and hope. We can be sure that the Almighty God who created and sustains his world wants all his people to be actively involved in his great plan to redeem the whole of creation.
Evangelical Climate InitiativeA Rocha a Christian Conservation Organization
Evangelical Environmental Network
Ausable Institute of Enviornmental Studies
Target Earth-Helping the Poor and Creation.
Signatories to Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action-
James Sundhome, Director, Covenant World Relief, Evangelical Covenant Church, Chicago, IL :More Evangelical Leader Signatures
If I am going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things He has made in the same way He treats them. -Francis Schaeffer, Pollution and the Death of Man.
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