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EPA Press Release: EPA'S Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge a resounding success (Chicago, Ill.) - Communities and residents of the Great Lakes basin have responded enthusiastically to EPA's Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge to collect 1 million pounds of electronics for recycling and 1 million pills for safe disposal to keep contaminants out of the Great Lakes. "We are very pleased that so many people have stepped up to accept the Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge," said EPA Great Lakes National Program Manager and Region 5 Administrator Mary A. Gade. "Communities have reported collecting more medicines and electronics this Earth Week than at any previous collections." EPA has received preliminary results: Over 2,184,000 pills have already been turned in for safe disposal - more than double the challenge goal. EPA also expects to far exceed its goal for e-waste based on 216,000 pounds of electronics collected at six events. --- Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge collection sites included locations in eight states: Illinois: Beecher, Bolingbrook, Channahon, Chicago, Elk Grove Village, Glenview, Joliet, Park Ridge, Romeoville, Shorewood, West Chicago, Wheaton Indiana: LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Rushville, Valparaiso Michigan: Benton Harbor, Traverse City Minnesota: Duluth, Madison, New Ulm New York: Syracuse Ohio: Cleveland, Perrysburg, Sandusky, Springfield, Warren Pennsylvania: TBA Wisconsin: Appleton, Brillion, Chilton, Keshena (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and College of Menominee Nation), Milwaukee, New Holstein, Oshkosh, Racine, Waupaca

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EPA, Penn. Sea Grant: Protects Lake Erie by collecting drugs

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Tags: EPA  Great  Lakes  2008  Earth  Day  Challenge  Lake  Erie  Pennsylvania  Sea  Grant  pharmaceuticals  drugs  pills  environment  PA 

Erie, PA residents dropped off about 600 pounds of medicine and personal care products on April 26, 2008 at the Cruise Boat Terminal Building during the Pennsylvania Sea Grant pharmaceutical collection. Located behind the Dr. Raymond Blasco Memorial Library the collection brought in over 73000...

EPA Challenge: Milwaukee drug collection for Lake Michigan

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Tags: Milwaukee  Metropolitan  Sewerage  District  DPW  pharmaceuticals  electronics  EPA  Wisconsin  Lake  Michigan  environment  earth 

They kept the traffic flowing in Milwaukee as more than 2000 people dropped off unused medications during an Earth Day 2008 project to properly dispose unwanted pharmaceuticals. Milwaukee residents turned in 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge Over 7000...

EPA Great Lakes Challenge success: Syracuse, NY TV event

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Tags: Syracuse  Onondaga  County  Resource  Recovery  Agency  OCRRA  EPA  Great  Lakes  2008  Earth  Day  Challenge  New  York  environment 

A leader in electronic waste recycling projects in the northeast is the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) in Syracuse, NY. The agency held a TV collection on Saturday, April 19 in the Alliance Bank Stadium parking lot as part of theEPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge. The...

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EPA: The Earth Keeper Initiative funded by grants

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The highly successful Earth Keeper Initiative would not be possible without funding. Major grants and other contributions have been provided by a wide range of people who believe in saving the planet - from grassroots donors to a government agency. Major funding has come from the United States...

One Ton Tree

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One Ton Tree interaction demo created by Seventh Generation as part of there One Ton Tree initiative Every virtual tree can make a real difference in New Orleans' Central City neighborhood on Earth Day, April 22, 2007. For each of the first 40,000 virtual trees "planted," Seventh Generation will...

Eco Challenge 2008

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Tags: earth  day  girls  kayak  bicycle  sports  women  eco  race  competition  columbia  river  oregon  mt  hood 

Promotional video- One mountina...one giant river...and 8 girls race to save the Planet- Celebrate Earth Day 2008 in Astoria, Oregon!

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