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El Sobrante Landfill is a Class 3 regional disposal facility permitted to accept up to 10,000 tons per day, seven days per week. It employs approximately 40 full-time employees. Landfill operations are overseen by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.
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Waste Management launched this month an online service to provide residents with a convenient recycling solution for household electronic waste, including compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), batteries, and eventually other household electronics. ThinkGreenFromHome.com offers consumers convenient mail-in solutions to safely store and recycle heavy metal containing household devices, as well as information to encourage household sustainability.
CFLs provide energy savings and help reduce a household’s environmental profile. However, since the devices contain mercury, proper handling and disposal of the bulbs is an important consideration. CFL use is growing rapidly – it is expected that some 4 billion CFLs will be in household use by 2012 – but safe, convenient methods for recycling CFLs and other household universal waste have previously been lacking.
To safely store and recycle used CFLs and batteries, customers can order online and receive prepaid-postage kits delivered to their door. Think Green© From Home CFL recycling kits incorporate Mercury VaporLok™ technology, which is designed to reduce the risk of airborne exposure and environmental contamination from lamps broken during storage and shipping.
The kits are suitable for both the storage and transport of discarded bulbs or batteries and are approved for shipping by the United States Postal Service. Consumers can ship the boxes directly from their home or at any one of the over 34,000 postal offices across the country.
ThinkGreenFromHome.com is part of Waste Management’s sustainability initiative that was announced last October at the World Business Forum committing the company to investing in new technologies to enhance our waste business as well as nearly tripling the amount of recyclables it manages by 2020.
For more information on CFL, battery and electronic waste recycling, or to order recycling kits, visit http://www.thinkgreenfromhome.com.
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