Habitat creates Home Wrecker Crew.
With leadership from Chris Martin at its Walzem Road Home Center, Habitat Humanity of San Antonio recently kicked off a new deconstruction program aimed at helping to salvage usable fixtures from houses slotted for renovation.
The project gives good, re-usable materials a second life; sparing them from the project dumpster and landfill and has the added benefit of reducing hauling costs for contractors and providing an itemized (tax deductable) donation receipt to owners.
To learn more or to volunteer, visit Wrecking Crew online or contact Chris Martin at 210.599.7109.
If you’re in the market for materials for your apartment, home or garden, it may be worth a visit to one of Habitat's Home Centers.
Home Centers sell new and used home improvement materials and proceeds fund Habitat for Humanity S.A. All this, and they’re helping to keep windows, tile, doors, cabinets, and light fixtures in use and out of local landfills.
Speaking of saving precious resources…
There are still a few days left (‘til April 1) to take part in SAWS Fix a Leak Program. While you’re at it, you’ll be earning a $5 credit for yourself and a $5 contribution to Texas Public Radio. To check out the water audit…
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Getting Real about Plastic
Paper v. Plastic? Tote bags win (again).
If you’ve been looking for more information on the paper v. plastic question, this occasional feature by the Washington Post may lend you a hand. The piece offers a quick, visual comparison of consumption, production, pollution of each material and considers how readily each biodegrades and can be recycled. The feature notes that while four in ten of us think that plastics will biodegrade over time, petroleum-based plastic resists degredation. Its strength, in other words, is its greatest weakness. For more information, visit the Washington Post online.
Decoding the Codes
What are those codes on the bottom of plastic containers? It turns out that they refer to the resin content of bottles and containers. For more on this, visit this chart from the American Chemistry Council.
Plastic clogging Our City’s Waterways – and Something You Can Do Did you know that plastic bags are the number one item pulled out of San Anto waterways during the Basura Bash cleanup? You can help reduce plastic waste by joining Basura Bash 2010 on Saturday, March 27th.
What is Basura Bash? Basura Bash is the biggest single-day waterway clean-up in Texas and, according to the organizers, the only event that collects recyclable waste products. Volunteers are needed to collect trash and recyclables from the banks of our local waterways, including the river at Brackenridge Park, Salado Creek at Martin Luther King Park, San Antonio River Mission Reach at Mission County Park, and a host of other locations. To get invovled...
For videos on the impact of plastic on oceans and marine life, see below. Note that the Marine Society (second video) doesn't stop at cleanups and surveys; it takes data on plastic trash back to product manufacturers to call on them to come up with solutions.
If you’ve been looking for more information on the paper v. plastic question, this occasional feature by the Washington Post may lend you a hand. The piece offers a quick, visual comparison of consumption, production, pollution of each material and considers how readily each biodegrades and can be recycled. The feature notes that while four in ten of us think that plastics will biodegrade over time, petroleum-based plastic resists degredation. Its strength, in other words, is its greatest weakness. For more information, visit the Washington Post online.
Decoding the Codes
What are those codes on the bottom of plastic containers? It turns out that they refer to the resin content of bottles and containers. For more on this, visit this chart from the American Chemistry Council.
Plastic clogging Our City’s Waterways – and Something You Can Do Did you know that plastic bags are the number one item pulled out of San Anto waterways during the Basura Bash cleanup? You can help reduce plastic waste by joining Basura Bash 2010 on Saturday, March 27th.
What is Basura Bash? Basura Bash is the biggest single-day waterway clean-up in Texas and, according to the organizers, the only event that collects recyclable waste products. Volunteers are needed to collect trash and recyclables from the banks of our local waterways, including the river at Brackenridge Park, Salado Creek at Martin Luther King Park, San Antonio River Mission Reach at Mission County Park, and a host of other locations. To get invovled...
For videos on the impact of plastic on oceans and marine life, see below. Note that the Marine Society (second video) doesn't stop at cleanups and surveys; it takes data on plastic trash back to product manufacturers to call on them to come up with solutions.
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