The Environmental Impact Council (EIC) was created on December 4, 2007 out of a community driven need to address our physical community and livability. It was formed as an outgrowth of the We the People 21st Century Town meeting.
Our number 1 priority is curbside recycling!
Mission
Preserve the environment through implementation of sustainable practices.
Meeting Schedule
When: Meetings are not regular; if interested in attending please call Shelly Nichols at Public Life Foundation at 685-2652 or email Shelly at shelly.nichols@plfo.org.
Where: Owensboro Museum of Science & History
What time: 6:30 pm
Please join us!
The EIC launched their Curbside Recycling Educational Campaign on April 26, 2009 at the Earth Day Event at First Christian Church!!!!!
We will be spending the next few months educating the community as well as community leaders on the benefits of curbside recycling.
If you are interested in putting an EIC curbside recycling sign in your yard just email: shelly.nichols@plfo.org
Recycling Options in Owensboro & Daviess County
Click here to download a list of recycling locations and types of items to recycle in our area.
Recycling Facts
What can be recycled?
Paper, plastic, paint, batteries, CFL bulbs, cardboard, cell phones, computers, aluminum cans and motor oil. Check your local recycling company for more information.
- The United States is the world's largest trash producer at 1,609 lbs. per person per year.
- If everyone in the United States recycled 1/10 of their newspaper, it would save about 25 million trees each year.
- The energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a television set for 3 hours.
- It takes 95% less energy to make new aluminum from scrap than from virgin materials.
- For every ton (2,000 lbs.) of waste paper recycled, 17 trees are preserved and 512 sp. ft. of landfill space saved.
- Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
- It takes more than 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year's supply of bottled water. That's enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars.
- Plastic bottles take 700 years before they begin to decompose in a landfill.
- 8 out of 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste
- 20,000 plastic water bottles = 1 ton
- Recycling a single plastic water bottle can save enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 6 hours.
- It takes 40% less energy to manufacture new glass from recycled glass.
- Glass can go from the recycling bin to supermarket shelves in 30 days.
- The energy saved in recycling one glass bottle can light a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours.
- Clear glass can be recycled indefinitely and not lose its quality.
- Cooking oil waste turned into biodiesel fuel produces up to 87% less fuel emissions than regular diesel.
- Do not mix oils you intend to recycle. Motor with motor and cooking with cooking.
- We throw away enough aluminum in cans and aluminum foil each year to produce a fleet of commercial airliners.
- Americans throw away about 3 lbs. of aluminum foil annually. It takes 400 years for aluminum to decompose in a landfill.
- Well-run recycling programs cost less to operate than waste collection, landfilling and incineration.
