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Happy New Year from B Green Services! Now, where to recycle your Christmas tree in Atlanta?

Written on January 2, 2010 at 1:34 pm, by bgreenservices

We at B Green Services would like to take a moment to wish all of you a very happy new year and hope that everyone has had a wonderful and safe holiday season! (And hope that everyone recycled as much as possible. ) We look forward to great success in 2010, both as the recycling movement continues to expand and our opportunities grow to help businesses with their recycling needs. We especially appreciate our current customers and look forward to another productive year!

If you’re looking for a place to recycle your Christmas tree this year, you can donate your tree to a good cause at Keep Atlanta Beautiful’s annual “Bring One for the Chipper” program. All Christmas trees will be recycled into mulch – here’s more info from Keep Atlanta Beautiful’s website:

The mulch from these trees has been used for playgrounds, local government beautification projects, and residential yards. The high quality, weed-free and pest-free mulch can be obtained for your large-scale landscaping project free of charge. Contact Davey Tree Service at 770-451-7911 for more information or download the Mulch Request Form.

You can drop off your tree on Saturday, January 9th, 2010 between 9 am and 4 pm at one of two Home Depots:

• 650 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta,  (click here for a map!)
• 2525 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta (click here for a map!)

Yours can be one of thousands of trees transformed into mulch! Please encourage others to recycle their Christmas trees as well and keep this prime organic matter out of landfills and in a much more useful capacity – protecting other trees, plants, and land.

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How does recycling make a difference? Take a look at the environmental and economic impact

Written on December 23, 2009 at 7:47 am, by bgreenservices

For individuals, recycling is a fairly simple, and yet critical, step to lessening our environmental impact. The person that tosses their plastic water bottle in the trash doesn’t necessarily realize, though, how that action goes beyond just taking up more landfill space. To truly understand the consequences of not recycling, one must look at the whole life cycle of that plastic water bottle, from the carbon it takes to manufacture new product versus the emissions from the recycling trucks that come around to collect the recyclable materials.

Here are a few statistics on the energy efficiency of recycling:

• Aluminum requires 96 percent less energy to make from recycled cans than it does to process from bauxite.
  
• Recycled glass uses about 21 percent less energy (and the numbers show that still beats creating a new product).
  
• Recycled plastic bottles use 76 percent less energy.
  
• Newsprint uses about 45 percent less energy.
  
• It takes 10.4 million Btu to manufacture products from a ton of recyclables, compared to 23.3 million Btu for virgin materials. And all of the collecting, hauling and processing of those recyclables adds just 0.9 million Btu.

These statistics make a strong case for recycling and, chances are, the numbers will only get better over time as pick-up and single stream operations become more efficient, among other factors. We pulled these numbers from an article in Popular Mechanics that ran last year which I would suggest people take a quick moment to read by clicking here. The emerging technology of single stream recycling dates the article a bit as we have been actively utilizing a single stream for quite some time in metro Atlanta.

How do we improve recycling rates even more, especially here in the south? What about a “pay as you throw” policy where residents pay according to the size of their trash can and amount of waste generated? Atlanta’s and Decatur’s single stream, curbside residential recycling programs have helped improve rates, but as you go further from the metro area, the pick-up services dwindle and with them goes the motivation to haul one’s own recycling to the nearest sorting facility. So thank you to everyone who makes that extra effort!

If you decide after reading this article that it’s time to do something about recycling at your work or in your condo or townhome community in the metro Atlanta area, please don’t hesistate to contact us, B Green Services, at 404.660.1392 or emil@bgreenservices.com. We’re passionate about recycling and specialize in developing custom recycling plans for hospitality, residential, and corporate recycling!

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Wish your Atlanta condo or apartment complex recycled? So does B Green Services – and we can help!

Written on December 6, 2009 at 2:53 pm, by bgreenservices

Surprisingly, many of Atlanta’s condo communities and apartment complexes do not offer recycling services. The City of Atlanta curbside recycling and DeKalb County do a great job of picking up from single-family residential homes, but skip over dense portions of our neighbors. Are you frustrated by the lack of recycling in your community? Tired of saving your recycling to run it up to the DeKalb Farmer’s Market or Emory or your local recycling facility?

B Green Services can help! Right now, we’re working with a townhome community in the Druid Hills neighborhood near Emory University to help them with their recycling needs. The homeowners environmental conscious was weighing heavy when they were introduced to Emil, the brains behind B Green Services. The homeowners association got together and elected to use B Green for single stream recycling and now have big herbie curbie recycling containers and a weekly pick-up from Emil. The HOA at this complex is working on taking their green desires even further, with hopes for solar panels and rain water collection barrels in the future. We’re happy to be partnered with folks of a similar mindset!

If you would like to explore your recycling options, please give Emil of B Green Services a call at 404.660.1392 or email him at emil@bgreenservices.com! Let’s see what we can do to turn recycling in Atlanta around!

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Recycling Customer Spotlight: Souper Jenny! Making the world greener one home cooked meal at a time.

Written on November 10, 2009 at 9:00 pm, by bgreenservices

Most of B Green Services’ customers recycle for a few main reasons – to save money on waste, because it’s mandatory for the organization or because they’re seeking a green certification.  The people at Souper Jenny do it because they care.  The staff is truly passionate about ensuring that the recycling effort is comprehensive and that its materials are clean and organized.  They make the extra effort and ask us about ways to improve the process.  Though their operation is small, their execution ensures that all of the recyclable materials they use are recovered.

The care they put into recycling may be surpassed only by the effort they put into their food.  Check out their amazing soups, sandwiches and salads.  Their menu changes daily, so go online to get your taste buds watering (www.SouperJennyATL.com).

Thanks, Souper Jenny, for being a super recycling partner! If you’re interested in recycling for your business, please contact us!

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2009 Silver Comet Half-Marathon goes eco-friendly with B Green Services recycling!

Written on November 4, 2009 at 8:40 pm, by bgreenservices

We at B Green Services is excited for last weekend’s successful race recycling venture with the Silver Comet Half-Marathon! As the skies opened up at the start of the race, we had volunteers lining the course at each water stop, preparing to recycling runners’ paper cups, plastic water bottles, and any other recyclable materials we could get our hands on. Logistically, everything went extremely smoothly! Of course, the finish line was the busiest spot and had the highest likelihood of contamination due to all of the food and general trash. However, we still managed to save mounds of waste from going to a landfill and instead diverted it to a materials processing facility!!

In addition to creating an environmentally-friendly Atlanta road race, we also took strides towards going green as a company. We printed our B Green Services t-shirts on “recycled” plain tees from thrift stores and printed our race flyers for the goodie bags on reused cardboard boxes. We look forward to recycling at many more road races and hope to grow our special events list in the future! Are you or someone you know interested in volunteering ti recycle at events around Atlanta? Do you know of someone that you use an eco-friendly hand to recycle for their event? We’d love to help! Just leave a comment below or contact us through our website!

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Race Preparation – Silver Comet Trail is Tomorrow

Written on October 30, 2009 at 8:48 pm, by bgreenservices

We’ve put in quite the effort preparing for the Silver Comet Trail race.  For our flyers, we collected used cardboard, broke it down piece by piece, and meticulously flattened out the seams to make sure it would run through the printer smoothly.  We’ve scoured the local Goodwill stores looking for t-shirts to reuse and print our logo on.  We’ve scouted the trail to make sure we had enough volunteers to cover the route.  And we’ll be up tomorrow at 5 am to make sure it all runs smoothly.  Thanks to all of our volunteers that have helped in the preparation and to all those that will be joining us tomorrow.  And a special thanks to Avie Designs for providing the printing services.  This is our first race effort, and we look forward to many more.

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My Candy Crisis – Why aren’t candy wrappers recyclable?

Written on October 29, 2009 at 8:36 pm, by bgreenservices

My office loves any excuse to have food around, and Halloween is no exception.  Those little bite-size candies are a constant tempation every time I walk past through the lobby or by any of the other strategically-placed candy dishes.  Just imagine my chagrin when I discovered that all the little candy wrappers that coat each and every bite-sized piece are NOT recyclable.  Now I not only suffer from the guilt of eating the calories in the two or three (ok, eight or ten) bites of bliss each day, but now I know that I can’t even recycle the mounds of plastic that pile up on my desk each day as evidence of my sweet tooth and lack of willpower.  So I’ve resolved to make a change.  I’ll stick to the Dots  – those little sweet gummy candies that come in little, recyclable cardboard boxes.

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Creative cardboard recycling: printing flyers for B Green Services and the Silver Comet Half-Marathon

Written on October 27, 2009 at 11:02 pm, by bgreenservices

This past week has been a busy one at B Green Services preparing for race recycling this coming Saturday, October 31st, at the Silver Comet Half-Marathon! In addition to gathering the cardboard recycling containers, coordinating volunteers, and getting silkscreens made for printing t-shirts, we’ve been working on creating unique flyers to go in 2,000 racer’s goodie bags. In the spirit of recycling, we decided to send out a call for cardboard boxes to friends, family, and co-workers asking for thin pieces, like cereal boxes, frozen pizza boxes, granola bar boxes, etc.with the intention of opening them all up and printing on the blank side. Which is exactly what we did.

After a few loose calculations, we figured we would need roughly 300+ boxes to accomplish our mission of printing 2,000 flyers on the blank insides. As the cardboard started pouring in, we started cutting it down to printable sizes. It was amazing to have so many people pitch in their recyclables to help us out – and even better that we could skip the steps of recycling the cardboard to make new paper and simply print on existing materials! The cutting and smoothing of our printing surfaces did entail an intense night of beer, pizza, cutting boards, rulers, and paper-folders, which we accomplished with the help of Angela, Erin, Rod, and Jenny.

Once the cardboard was all cut down to size, we utilized the printing services of Avis, the owner of the stationary company Avie Designs. Turns out, she has a fancy printer that could print on cardboard (something FedEx Office wasn’t even able to do). It took two more nights of feeding each piece of cardboard in by hand into two different printers, followed by the final step of cutting them down into individual flyers. Thanks to Avis, her husband Vince, and Heather for helping with that stage of the process!

We’re excited with the end result! And got them all to the race director on time to have them stuffed into 2,000 goodie bags tomorrow night. So, if you’re running in the 2009 Silver Comet Half-Marathon, please take a quick second to check out our recycled cardboard flyers before recycling it with the rest of the race flyers you got. We put some love into those!

And if you’re interested in volunteering with us, please email recycling@bgreenservices.com. Here’s to many more races to come!

Oh yes, and this is what it says:

Did you know that a runner uses an average of 4 plastic water bottles during one half-marathon?

and that it takes one plastic bottle 1,000 years to decompose?

that’s about 8 million years for today’s race alone.

thank you for recycling!

B Green Services, proud sponsor of the Silver Comet Races’ recycling

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B Green Services teams up with Atlanta’s hospitality industry as a local Atlanta recycling solution!

Written on October 8, 2009 at 6:20 am, by bgreenservices

B Green Services is proud to announce our recent arrival on the Atlanta recycling scene! Founder and owner Emil Bekyarov is no stranger to full-service recycling in Atlanta and is excited to extend his own single-stream recycling pick-up to the hospitality industry in Atlanta and the surrounding areas.

Our goal is to help businesses find the most cost-effective way of managing waste while saving tons of recyclables from going into landfills. B Green Services also supports eco-friendly certifications for corporations, hotels, and restaurants.

Please stay tuned to our blog as we bring you updates on recycling news, volunteer opportunities, special events, legislation, green certifications, and much more!

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