548 pounds of unwanted medications were recycled at Recycle Rama. Photo: Alice Rossignol
Last week Echo reported that a new event, “Recycle Rama,” recycled thousands of pounds of material in Michigan’s Ingham County.
David Smith, an environmental specialist with the city of East Lansing, let us know the event’s finals counts excluding things like mercury thermostats, CFL light bulbs and fluorescent tubes that haven’t yet been weighed.
Items recycled (in pounds):
Electronic waste: 78,000
Scrap metal: 5,000
Appliances: 16,700
Bikes: 1,400
Books: 9,400
Miscellaneous re-sale items: 4,200
Clothing: 2,500
Shoes: 1,000
Air conditioners: 2,280
Dehumidifiers: 3,780
Unwanted medications: 548
Cooking oil: 414
Miscellaneous recyclables (mainly cardboard): 440
Holiday lights: 550
That’s 126,212 pounds (about 63 tons) of materials total.
That’s about 1,262 Asian carp, assuming they are on the heftier end.
If only those could be recycled in mass too.
They recycled 1/2 of an adult blue whale’s mass.