Happy Earth Day to all. At Hometown we try to be as GREEN as possible.
We:
- use 100% recycled paper
- we put recycling receptacles in the waiting room & shop
- recycle the steel, aluminum, & lead generated by repairs
- recycle scrap tires
- recycle used oil filters
- use a rubbish company that dumps their trucks in a warehouse and sorts the rubbish to reclaim recyclables
- send the used anti-freeze to be recycled
- use the waste oil generated to heat the shop
- recycle the old batteries
We’re doing a pretty good job but we found an area we could better at. Our rubbish company sorts the rubbish except the cardboard often gets contaminated by the other trash in the dumpster and it can’t be recycled.
To celebrate Earth Day we had a separate dumpster brought in this morning just for cardboard. Now 100% of the cardboard we generate, will get recycled. Almost everything comes in a cardboard box, so that’s a lot of cardboard.
