Southern Energy & Environment Expo 2008 A Big Success!

The attendee numbers aren't available yet but the success of this Expo is already the talk of the town.  T-A-D-S participated in a first-time dumpster dive.  Our intent was to focus on the amount of items thrown away, to be taken to a landfill, that could be recycled.

Seriously, Tim McCoyle actually dove into a standard-size dumpster and in 20 minutes was able to recover 85% of the contents for recycling.  Inside the dumpster was enough plastic to fill seven 55-gallon bags; enough glass to make a full-size statue of a person and enough aluminum to power a television for a 24-hour period.

The total of recycles removed from the entire Expo were:  225 pounds of glass; 195 pounds of plastic, 60 pounds of aluminum, 30 pounds of cardboard, 87 pounds of compost and 130 pounds of magazines for a grand total of 727 pounds of materials.

Effective January 1, 2008, the state of North Carolina will require all restaurants and all establishments [including private clubs], that serve alcoholic beverages, to accumulate, sort and store all glass, plastic and aluminum for recycling.  Failure to comply may result in the suspension of a permit.

What We Do

T-A-D-S is prepared to provide you with full recycle pick-up service and delivery to the appropriate Materials Recovery Facility.

We are also offering, at this time, compost and fryer grease removal as well as standard trash pick-up for commercial clients.  All compost materials will be delivered to area agricultural and organic farms and the fryer grease will be reclaimed as bio-diesel fuel.

• Recycle to include:  glass, aluminum, plastic, paper and cardboard. 
• Blue Recycle bags available to clients. 
• Compost & Recycle centers - custom built for each client's individual needs.

Let T-A-D-S make the transition to the new recycle law as seamless as possible for you. 

The following interesting facts were obtained from Holly Bullman, Regional Planner with the Land-of-Sky Regional Council.

We are placing 11 million tons of waste in our landfills, per year.  This is up from 1991, with 7 million tons.  Within the next ten years, this number will jump to 18 million tons, if we continue at the current rate of discard.

We have an estimated 16 years left of landfill usage in North Carolina.  It takes 10 years to get a site approved and all the legal paperwork/permits obtained.  Right now, the waste and recycling industry is competing with one another.  It has always been less expensive to dispose of waste rather than to recycle.  However, that is changing as we run into more and more depletion of our natural resources.  For example, we export paper recycles to China.  It is less expensive for them to buy recycles from the US than it is to try and acquire more forests.

Jobs, in North Carolina, have increased by 20% as we start to see a curve from the loss of textile and other industrial jobs.  Recycling is replacing the lost jobs.

In 2009, all plastics must be kept from the landfills in North Carolina, as well as all pallets which account for approximately 18% of the total materials dumped.

                                                SHREDDING!

                                  SCRAP METAL!

                          COMPOST CONTENTS!

                                                                     LANDFILL