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For more information on the E-Waste collection event, please fL'el ti'ee contact Jennijr Wylie
the Julian High School Community Service Club Advisor at (760)-765-0606 x 207.
For more information on what can and cannot be recycled, please contact Justin Lamer at Arrow
Metal Recycling at (619)-827-6535 or email lanterjastin@,arrowmetalrecycling.com
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Did You Know...?
Electronic discards are one of the taste,st growing segments of our nation's waste stream.
56% of American households have functional e-products that they will no longer use,
Less than 10% of E-Waste is currently being properly dismantled or recycled
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70 of heavy metals and 409, o of lead and mercu, contents found in today's landfills come
from E-Waste.
What is E-Waste?
E-Waste is defined as any consumer electronic equipment that has reached its "and-of-lit;e, end-
of-usage" - whether in full or non-working condition, Most electronics or electronic equipments
with a cord or circuit board such as: Televisions. Personal computers (CPU, monitors,
keyboards, mouse, and peripherals), CD players, Copiers, Duplicators, Electric typewriters, Fax
machines, Hard drives, Laptops, Mainframe computers, Modems, Microwave ovens, Printers,
Printed circuit boards, Radios, Remote controls, Stereos, rape players, Telephones, and
telephone equipment, Testing equipment, Transparency make, Uninterruptible power supplies,
VCR.s, and Word processors, Answering machines, Camcorders can be recycled properly with
E-Waste. We also take all materials ranging from fibers to gold! For example, Cardboard,
Batteries (Automotive) and any and all Metals can be recycled through E-Waste. k
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Dispose Of Our E-Waste Properly!
EARTH waterways and contaminate
drinking water. Another side
effect is air pollution: The lagoons
and spray fields emit methane
Questions & Answers
About Our Environment
Dear EarthTalk: What's being
done to clean up hog farming
operations in places like Iowa
and North Carolina and others
where the industry is quite large?
I've heard horrific stories about
man-made "lagoons" of animal
waste spilling into and fouling
rivers and groundwater and the
like.
-- John Schmid,
Fremont, California
Hog farming has always been
a messy business, but surging
demand for pork in recent years
has exacerbated an already
foul problem: dealing with the
continual production of the bodily
waste of thousands of animals.
Pigs are kept in tight quarters
and their waste is channeled
into huge open-air lagoon pits
and spray fields. The lagoons
can rupture during heavy rains,
unleashing a torrent of bacteria-
and virus-laden feces and urine
into nearby groundwater, lakes
and streams. Likewise, spray
fields, where some farmers
discard animal waste by spraying
it over otherwise unused
land, can pollute surrounding
(a leading greenhouse gas) and
ammonia (a respiratory irritant)
into the atmosphere, the foul
odors sullying the air quality--
and neighbors' quality of life--for
miles around.
The problem has been
especially bad in North Carolina,
where the number of hogs raised
has gone up fourfold in the last
two decades--hog farmers
there now raise and slaughter
some 10 million hogs a year.
In 1995, a hog waste lagoon
overflow at Ocean View Farms
in North Carolina sent 20 million
gallons of hog waste into the
New River, causing massive
fish kills and contaminating
drinking water in several
neighboring communities. And
the torrential rains and flooding
that accompanied 1999's
Hurricane Floyd wreaked havoc
on hog farm waste lagoons and
surrounding ecosystems across
North Carolina.
But while hog farming has a
deservedly bad reputation, that
may all change thanks to farmers,
activists, researchers and
policy makers who are working
hard to reduce the negative
environmental impacts of the
business and even capitalize
on the waste itself. Pioneering
research conducted at North
Carolina State University has
showed that technologies were
On hog farms, pigs are kept in tight quarters and their waste
is channeled into huge open-air lagoon pits like the one shown
here at a Smithfield Foods operation in Jones County North
Carolina on the Trent River. These lagoons can rupture during
heavy rains, unleashing a torrent of bacteria- and virus-laden
feces and urine into nearby groundwater, lakes and streams.
photo by Rick Dove (www.doveimaging.com).
already available to not only
reduce hog waste pollution
but to use it to grow crops like
duckweed that can be converted
into carbon-neutral, fuel-grade
ethanol.
Meanwhile, an economic
analysis by the non-profit
Environmental Defense Fund
(EDF) found that North Carolina
could gain 7,000 jobs and add
$10 billion to its economy if the
hog industry there were to move
to more innovative systems for
treating waste. In its report,
EDF stresses the importance
of incentives and cost-share
programs to help make such
new systems affordable for the
farmers who need them.
Citing this and other research,
along with public outcry over
waste lagoon overflows, North
Carolina lawmakers passed
the Swine Farm Environmental
Performance Standards Act
May 26, 2010
in 2007. The landmark law
makes North Carolina the first
state to ban the construction or
expansion of waste lagoons and
sprayfields on hog farms and
helps hog farmers with up to 90
percent of the costs incurred by
upgrading to more sustainable
waste management systems.
The law also funds a swine farm
methane capture pilot program
that will have some 50 hog farms
generating electricity from their
animals' emissions by September
2010. Time will tell whether North
Carolina's trailblazing on. the
issue will influence lawmakers
elsewhere.
CONTACTS: "Tiny Super-Plant
can Clean Up Hog Farms and
Be Used for Ethanol Production,"
NC State University,. blogs.lib.
ncsu.ed u/cnrnews/entry/tiny,
super_plant_can_clean; EDF,
www.edf.org.
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