2016 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival

A Publication of MarBorg Industries
Spring 2016
2016 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival
The global climate movement is growing.
As individuals, communities, and nations,
we must work together to protect the
only world we have. Take one step now
and join us at Santa Barbara Earth Day.
The Community Environmental Council (CEC) will
host the 2016 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival at
Alameda Park on Saturday, April 16 and Sunday,
April 17. The 2016 festival – which is free to attend –
is themed “One World,” underscoring the reality that
we must work together as individuals, communities, and
nations to keep global warming well below two degrees,
the level at which scientists say climate change will have
seriously detrimental effects on the human population.
Now in its 46th year, the community-organized festival
is one of the longest-running and consistently held
Earth Day celebrations in the country – and is believed
to be one of the largest Earth Day festivals on the
West Coast. Santa Barbara’s environmental reputation
attracts national media, celebrity attention, and local
crowds; the 2015 festival drew over 29,000 visitors.
MarBorg Industries is pleased to be a sponsor of the
2016 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival. This year the
MarBorg Earth Day booth will feature a make your own
recycled bird feeder project and a guess how many
aluminum cans are in the aluminum bale raffle.
RAFFLE
Guess how many aluminum cans
are in the aluminum bale at the
MarBorg 2016 Earth Day booth!
For more information on Santa Barbara Earth Day,
go to www.SBEarthDay.org, email info@cecmail.org
or call 963-0583 ext. 100.
Questions? Call 963-1852 or visit www.MarBorg.com
Home
Composting
The Santa Barbara County Public
Works Department supports
alternatives to throwing food
scraps and yard waste into your
trash. Organics that enter the
landfill release potent methane gas
and contribute to climate change.
“When you compost at home,
leftover food scraps and plant
materials are naturally recycled
into nutrient-rich compost for your
garden, and valuable resources are
kept out of the landfill,” explained
Sam Dickinson, a Program
Specialist with the Department.
This is a great way for you to
reduce your environmental impact.
Santa Barbara County makes it
easy to compost with half price
compost bins for sale as well as
FREE workshops!
Learn to Compost for Free – More Information: www.LessIsMore.org/compost
SANTA BARBARA – Saturday, April 9th from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at Santa Barbara City College Lifescape Gardens at 721 Cliff Drive (East Campus).
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY – Saturday, April 30th from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the SYV Botanic Garden at 151 Sycamore Drive.
ORCUTT – Saturday, May 14th from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the Sustainable Gardens at 624 West Foster Road.
Onsite parking available. No need to RSVP. For more information call: 882-3618.
Half Price
Compost Bins
The Santa Barbara County Public Works
Department is currently offering bins for HALF
PRICE (marked down from $80 to just $40). Bins
are available at the South Coast Recycling and
Transfer Station located at 4430 Calle Real, Santa
Barbara from Monday to Saturday, 7 am-5 pm.
For more information on creating your own nutrient
rich compost for your garden call 882-3618, or
visit us online at www.LessIsMore.org/compost.
BYE BYE MATTRESS
More than 50,000 mattresses end
up in U.S. landfills every year.
Make sure your mattress isn’t
one of them!
MarBorg is now accepting used
mattresses for recycling at no
charge at our C&D Facility.
According to the Mattress Recycling Council (MRC), U.S. consumers discard at least 20 million
mattresses and box springs annually. At 40 cubic feet per set, these mattresses and box
springs account for up to 800 million cubic feet of waste generated each year. That’s equivalent
to filling up your average professional football stadium EIGHT times! More often than not, these
mattresses and box springs are ending up in the landfill. This is a real shame considering over
90% of these materials are recyclable.
In October of 2015, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
(CalRecycle) approved the proposed budget and recycling fee for “Bye Bye Mattress,”
California’s new mattress recycling program administered by the Mattress Recycling Council
(MCR). As a result, mattress retailers and sellers must collect an $11 recycling fee on each
mattress or box spring sold to California consumers. The fees will be used to cover the costs of
mattress collection, transportation, and recycling services statewide.
After initiating a contract with the MRC, MarBorg is now accepting used mattresses at
no charge at our C&D Facility, located at 119 N Quarantina. All mattress types and sizes,
excluding futons, cribs, and couch mattresses, will be accepted.
Thanks to the efforts of the MRC and MarBorg, used
mattresses in the greater Santa Barbara area will be collected
and transferred to a recycling facility in Santa Maria where
a whopping 95% of materials will be recovered!
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RECYCLING COLLECTION
What’s Recyclable?
ALL PLASTIC (Todo Plástico)
No Styrofoam or packing peanuts.
No plastic bags.
To learn more visit LessIsMore.org | County of Santa Barbara | (805) 882-3600
GLASS BOTTLES & JARS
(Botellas y Tarros de Vidrio)
No window glass or drinking glasses.
ALL METAL (Todo Metal)
No full or partly-full containers.
No oil filters.
PAPER & CARDBOARD (Papel y Cartón)
Now including milk cartons!
No paper plates, towels, napkins.
GREEN WASTE RECYCLING
As a reminder, the following are DO’s and DO NOT’s for your green waste containers:
YES
Grass, leaves, flowers,
yard trimmings, ivy, plants
and small branches.
NO
Palm fronds, pampas grass, food,
animal waste, plastic bags, nursery
pots, dirt, rocks or smelly socks!
Questions? Call 963-1852 or visit www.MarBorg.com