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

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Up top is our early start at 5 a.m. on race day, setting up recycling bins to go along the half-marathon course; <br><br>next is Emil and Jenny loading up the back of the truck with a portion of the race recycling; <br><br> next is our B Green crew with Emil, Angela, Jenny, and Zack (Jenny's dad was out, too, taking the photo!); <br><br> and at the bottom is just some of the recyclable material we saved from going into a landfill!

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

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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.