WasteCap of
Lincoln’s E-Newsletter
October 2004
Mobile Environmental Education
Center Debuts on November 15th…
Nebraska’s first mobile environmental education center is on its way.
Participate in America Recycles
Day… The City of
Lincoln Recycling Office is coordinating a local effort to support
America Recycles Day.
Natural Capitalism…
Amory Lovins, co-author of
Natural Capitalism is coming to Omaha on October 27.
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded
to…
environmental activist
Wangari Maathai of Kenya.
Waste
Reduction at WasteCap….
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What’s New
for October 2004:
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WasteCap’s New
Member Profile
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Archer Daniels Midland
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Mobile Environmental Education Center Debuts on November
15th
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Lincoln
Participates in America Recycles Day
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Retrofit
Recycling Pick-Up Dates
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Amory Lovins in Omaha
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Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Sustainable
Living Practices
Archer Daniels
Midland Company (ADM) is a world leader in agricultural processing. ADM
is one of the world’s largest processors of soybeans, corn, wheat and
cocoa. ADM is also a leader in the production of soy meal and oil,
ethanol, corn sweeteners and flour. In addition, ADM produces
value-added food and feed ingredients.
Archer Daniels
Midland has its headquarters in Decatur, IL. The Lincoln location was
constructed in the late 1960’s, and is a soybean processing facility.
We extract oil from soybeans and further refine the oil into edible oil
products including hydrogenated soybean oil and salad oil. After the
oil is extracted from the soybeans, a high proteing meal remains and is
used for livestock feed.
By joining WasteCap
of Lincoln, we hope to aid in the City of Lincoln’s recycling efforts.
We currently recycle steel and plan to recycle mixed office paper,
cardboard, and miscellaneous plastics.
Mobile Environmental Education Center – Debuts on November 15th
– America Recycles Day
In celebration of America
Recycles Day on November 15th, Midland Recycling, in
partnership with WasteCap of Lincoln, a program of the Lincoln Chamber
of Commerce, is pleased to announce the Grand Opening of Nebraska’s
first mobile environmental education center. The event will be held
outside of the State Office Building at Centennial Mall and “M” Streets
with activities beginning at 10:00 a.m. and going until 6:00 p.m. A
ribbon cutting will be held at 10:00 a.m. Special guests will include
Mayor Colleen Seng, Governor and Mrs. Johanns, representatives from the
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, and other local and state
dignitaries.
The Mobile
Environmental Education Center is the first of its kind in Nebraska and
one of only a few across the nation. It is the culmination of nearly
two-year’s work and planning by several volunteers and organizations
from across the state. The Center will initially travel Southeast
Nebraska, representing 77% of the state’s population. In the first
year, the Center will be displayed at a minimum of 20 events. There is
great potential to reach 60,000 – 75,000 visitors each year, with an
anticipated reach of 30,000 visitors in the first year.
The Center is
designed to educate Nebraska residents about the importance of
environmental stewardship. Education is a key component to successful
environmental stewardship programs and is the strongest tool to help
create the behavioral and social changes necessary to improve and
protect our environment. Visitors to the Center will learn about solid
waste management and recycling in Nebraska as well as resource
conservation and pollution prevention practices. The unique Center will
use electronic displays and an environment made from recycled materials
to convey an environmental stewardship message.
In July 2003, Midland
Recycling was awarded grant funding of $111,157 from the Nebraska
Department of Environmental Quality’s (NDEQ) Waste Reduction and
Recycling Incentives Grant Program. The grant funding has been used as
seed money to purchase, build and design the education center as well as
secure many of the supplies. Additional trailer construction and
development funding is being raised through private donations in a
capital campaign drive.
For more
information, contact Mike Foster with Midland Recycling at 476-8502 or
Carrie Hakenkamp with WasteCap at 436-2384.
Lincoln
Participates in America Recycles Day
Businesses that are interested in participating in America Recycles Day
should contatct the City Recycling Office. The City will be providing
businesses with pledge cards, pledge boxes and posters to display.
People completing a pledge card to recycle or buy recycled content
products will be entered into local and national drawings. There will
be prizes awarded to both adults and children.
Local prizes for adults include: One
year's worth of Free Curbside Recycling Service (courtesy of Recycling
Enterprises); 100 scratch lottery tickets (Courtesy of Nebraska
Lottery); 50 scratch lottery ticktets (Courtesy of Nebraska Lottery).
Local prizes for children include: $100 Gift Certificate to Best Buy
(Courtesy of Von Busch and Sons Refuse); $75 Gift Certificate to
Wal-Mart (Courtesy of Wal-Mart). The National prizes are a 2005 Ford
Escape Car for adults and a Trek 24 speed Mountain Bike for children.
Businesses interested in participating
should contact
Kurt Elder 441-8215 or e-mail recycling@lincoln.ne.us
Reminder that WasteCap of
Lincoln members do receive discounted fluorescent lamp, ballast,
electronic and battery recycling services through Retrofit Recycling
(800-274-1309) and Environmental Compliance Enterprises (466-2268).
Please let us know if you need an updated price sheet.
October:
28th &
29th
November:
4th &
5th
18th &
19th
Amory Lovins, Co-Author of Natural Capitalism, Comes to Omaha
Amory Lovins,
President and CEO of The Rocky Mountain Institute, is making his way to
the Nebraska to speak about the energy industry and his recommendations
on how to get the U.S. completely off oil. Lovins co-authored the book
Natural Capitalism with Paul Hawken and L. Hunter Lovins. It has
served as a ‘road map’ for business strategies that find profitable ways
to solve environmental problems by productive use of natural resources.
His new book, Winning the Oil Endgame, addresses the highly
controversial issue of U.S. dependence on oil. Lovins discusses the
dangers and hidden costs to oil dependence and shows alternatives to oil
that will work better and cost less. Lovins will be in Omaha, NE,
October 27, 2004 at the Scott Conference Center – UNO Campus. The
lecture will begin at 6:30 and costs $5. For more information go to
www.aiaomaha.org
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Environmentalist Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai,
founder of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya, has been awarded the 2004
Nobel Peace Prize. Maathai is the first woman from Africa to win the
Nobel Peace prize and the first to win the prize for work done in the
environmental field. She has been awarded the prize for her
contribution to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. The
Green Belt Movement has been in action since 1977. Emphasizing
education, family planning, nutrition and the fight against corruption
the GBM has accomplished the planting of over 20 million trees, by women
in Kenya. By combining science, social commitment and active politics,
Maathai strives to secure and strengthen the basis of ecological
sustainability. In 2003, Maathai was appointed Assistant Minister of
the Environment, Natural Resources, and Wildlife and has recently been
named ‘Elder of the Burning Spear’, by president Mwai Kibaki. To find
out more about the accomplishments and goals of Wangari Maathai, check
out the sites below.
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2004/press.html
www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/2004/173/.
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2004/10/08/dabelko-maathai/
Sustainable Living Practices
If you are looking for ways to improve your personal or business
environmental practices, there is a great
website full of
tips and information for creating a better future. The goal of A
Better Future’s website is to increase awareness of the public about
sustainable development, environmental, economic and societal health
issues as well as influence change at a grassroots level. The site work
arose from the National
Council for Science and the Environment’s 2003 conference
and its partner organization is the
Center for Respect of Life and
Environment. Interest subjects including environment,
health, business, politics, etc. divide the site, so that you may go
directly to the information that is most suitable to your needs. “This
site offers a portal to information you will need in order to recognize
the many connected issues in our world and how the kinds of choices we
make based upon this understanding will affect the consequences of our
actions (the 3 Cs). We are not trying to tell you how to live, but
rather providing you with enough information so you can make your own,
well-informed decisions about how you conduct your life in relationship
to sustainability.”