Glass cullet is the term for glass that has been recycled, cleaned, crushed and ready to be processed into new product. Thanks to one of the coolest community programs I’ve seen lately, Ripple Glass is making it easy for Kansas City residents to recycle their nearly 150 million pounds of used glass each year.
Bravo to Boulevard Brewing Co. for going to such lengths to reverse the effects of their 10 million bottles disposed of annually. That’s a lot of beer people!
Ripple Glass is the culmination of Boulevard and other local companies and community organizations partnering to create a state of the art glass processing plant and 60 dedicated recycling containers placed throughout the city. Coolest part of this? A local company is now converting all that recycled glass into fiberglass insulation. This will save tons of energy resulting in lower emissions while producing a product that helps save even more energy!
Interesting statistic: Throughout the United States, nearly 30% of all glass containers are recycled.
Scary statistic: Last year Greater Kansas City ranked last among major metropolitan areas with a recycling rate of 5%.
So here’s our chance KC. Ripple Glass has made it SUPER easy to recycle all our food and beverage glass.
Step 1: Go to any local Price Chopper and purchase a cool home/office personal collection bin. It’s only $4.99 – affordable is good!!
Step 2: Toss all your glass food and beverage containers into the bin. No need to separate by color, remove labels or rinse the glass. (I know you’re excited but don’t do crazy – no windows, cookware, dishes or as RG says, no ham sandwiches.)
Step 3: Go to www.rippleglasskc.com, locate the nearest collection container, swing by and dump your glass!
Step 4: REPEAT
See, super easy! Let’s get Kansas City ranked at the top of national list. I’m headed to Price Chopper right now to pick up two bins – one for the office and one for home! I challenge all of you to do the same.
Peace + Love + Furniture (and glass recycling)
Courtnay
Brrr. It’s been a chilly and slower start to the new year than I anticipated. Starting week one of 2010 with a nasty head cold is not what I had planned but I’m finally starting to feel a bit better and ready to kick our new decade into gear!
2009 was a pretty exciting year – you know a company launch and all! :) But I will say, 2010 looks to be pretty exciting itself. We have lots of big plans and we’re getting really close to crossing off a couple of big goals set before we started in July.
Thanks to 2020/Creative we have a fabulous fresh new website: www.squareoneinteriorsllc.com (A special thank you to Pete & Jeff – you guys ROCK!) So after you’re finished reading this post, feel free to have a look around! We are still in the process of adding content and lots of great tips and tools so please check back often for cool new stuff. While your at it, take some time to join us on our social media sites. Become a fan on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and connect with me on LinkedIn. I promise it will be worth it! Each connection is a chance to win super cool products and prizes throughout the year. First drawing is February 15th for a Diffrient World Chair from Humanscale.
The new year finds us with a new home! We’ll soon be moving into the historic River Market onto what is the most charming street in our city. (Ok, so I may be a little biased) We’ve got some work to do in the space, but we’re targeting March as our open date. I’ll be posting construction progress and sneak peeks via Facebook – so see another reason to become a fan!
We’ve also got a couple of really cool community projects in the works. These are taking place later this year so they are still in the planning stages but we’ll update everyone via Litterbook (my pet name for LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook) and the website soon.
So see, an exciting year lay ahead. Bring it on 2010!
Peace + Love + Furniture
Courtnay
