Air Cycle May 2007 E-Newsletter
Continuing our efforts to better communicate new products, services, industry news, and regulatory updates, Air Cycle provides the following e-newsletter.
Compact Fluorescent Disposal Simplified
CFLs have gained momentum with the latest green push and Wal-Mart's commitment to sell 100 million over the next year. Despite high front-end costs, compact fluorescents use 50-80% less energy and last up to 10 times longer than traditional incandescents. Additionally, CFLs reduce air and water pollution, give off high-quality light and can be used nearly everywhere.
Despite the obvious benefits, CFLs, like all fluorescent lamps, contain mercury. All CFLs should be handled with care and disposed of properly. The EasyPak CFL Recycling Container from Air Cycle provides a simple solution to efficiently recycle used lamps. One low-price includes the container, return shipping via FedEx Ground, recycling of the lamps, and a Certificate of Recycling. Each container can hold around 90 CFLs (or up to 55 lbs of lamps) as well as HIDs, circulars, and other mixed lamps.
Many Ways for Facilities to Go Green
Maintenance Solutions
Giant leaps aren't the only route to greener buildings. Small steps can also be effective
When large, profit-minded organizations with corporate philosophies seemingly as diverse as Whole Foods and Wal-Mart embrace the same issue, you can be fairly certain the idea has transcended social, political and cultural boundaries. That's the case today with environmentalism. Concern for the environment has evolved into a mainstream movement. Fueled by concerns about climate change, rising energy costs and the dwindling supply of natural resources, green ideas continue to gain momentum in the United States and throughout the world.
Study shows more companies are turning green
Waste News
More corporations are embracing sustainability and green building principles, a new study commissioned by Siemens Building Technologies Inc. shows.
The study shows 63 percent of those CEOs surveyed recognize green building's financial benefits and 67 percent can identify a specific cost benefit, Siemens said.
Seimens used McGraw-Hill Construction to produce the report "Greening of Corporate America."
"Today's corporate leaders are already very conscious of using green building practices when considering new facilities, and they expect green building to have an increasing impact in the future," said Brad Haeberle, a marketing director with Siemens. His company provides energy, environmental, fire, security and control services and equipment for buildings.
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E-Waste Spotlight
Facts and Figures
GreenBiz
In a 2006 report, the International Association of Electronics Recyclers projects that with the current growth and obsolescence rates of the various categories of consumer electronics, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 billion units will be scrapped during the rest of this decade, or an average of about 400 million units a year.
Gartner estimated in 2003 that 133,000 PCs are discarded by U.S. homes and businesses each day.
In 1999, the National Safety Council estimated that there would be 300 to 500 million obsolete computers in the US, ready for disposal, by 2005.
Mercury Spotlight
How Safe Are Mercury Lightbulbs?
Building Operating Management
Some have balked at converting to CFLs because of the mercury contained in fluorescent lamps. A closer look, however, reveals that using CFLs actually reduces hazardous waste. The lead, which is also a hazardous waste, built into the base of incandescent lamps requires, in most areas, their disposal or at least that of their bases as lead-bearing hazardous waste.
The relatively short lives of incandescents further exacerbates that problem since 5 to 10 of them are needed merely to match the lifetime of a single CFL. Besides, CFLs contain very little lead. But when the situation is carefully analyzed, the mercury issue actually favors CFLs over incandescents, which contain no mercury.
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