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The Loop Newsletter
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Issue #57
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Close the Loop Celebrates 10 Years in Business as a Leader in the Recycled Products Marketplace ~ offering solutions to environmental problems ~ thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years!
Garbage Dreams, a movie about 3 teenagers growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. The Zaballeen aren’t just garbage collectors. They are garbage recyclers, recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect. This movie is playing for free in Philadelphia at the WYHH Civic Space Wed. Jan 27th at 7pm (discussion after the movie) ~ however you must RSVP at:
http://whyy.convio.net/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=102821
For all locations of the film screening, visit:
http://events.workingfilms.org/garbagedreams
Watch the trailer: www.garbagedreams.com
Feb 4th-6th ~ PASA’s Farming for the Future Conference
Keynote speaker on Friday 2/5/10: Michael Reynolds, an architect from New Mexico who speaks the language of dirt and garbage; inventor of Earthships, discussing sustainable principles, renewable energy & off-grid living with little or no utility bills. He has built an eco resort in Jamaica, helped with hurricane relief in Mexico, tsunami relief in India, and has built Earthships throughout the world. More info.
The 2010 Philadelphia Flower Show will feature an exhibit by Hunter Hayes Landscape Design that incorporates Close the Loop’s fencing, rubber and glass mulch, glass sand, rubber tiles & timbers into their display! Check it out Feb. 28-Mar 7.
New EPA Study Released on Safety of Rubber Mulch on Playgrounds and Artificial Turf: Over the past several years, a number of public concerns have been raised over the use of tire crumb materials in turf fields and playgrounds. Download the EPA Study, A Scoping-Level Field Monitoring Study of Synthetic Turf Fields and Playgrounds. Key findings: the concentrations of components monitored in this study were below levels of concern. Likewise the average extractable lead concentrations for turf field wipe samples were low. Although there are no directly comparable standards, average concentrations were well below the EPA standard for lead in residential floor dust (40 micrograms per square foot). Read more.
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Glass, a very eco-friendly material ~
There is NO PETROLEUM in glass. Glass is made from sand, an abundant resource. It is melted down and formed into bottles. It is safe to drink from. The drawbacks are it is heavier to ship, and breaks. At the end of it's useful life, it can be recycled, melted down, and reformed into a new product. There is an abundant supply [of waste glass] because the bottling plants in the US are not buying it. They either want a cleaner source or are going to plastic. So, most of the recycled glass is ground up and used as landfill [or going into new markets such as clean & tumbled glass mulch].
Plastic is made from nonrenewable crude oil, which produces toxic waste in its mining and manufacture. It leaches into foods and beverages. Some plastics are recycled, but plastics that end up in landfills or ecosystems don't biodegrade for hundreds of years. Contributed by Debra Lynn Dadd
You’re Invited ~ TONIGHT 7pm 1/14/10 & Saturday at 2pm - Youth Infusion Documentary on Alcoholism & Pollution Please come out to the E-burg theater on Jan 14th for their "big screen" production. Close the Loop will be one of the companies featured to discuss the waste/pollution issues.
7:00PM Thursday, January 14th, also showing Saturday at 2pm:
Pocono Community Theater, 88 South Courtland St., East Stroudsburg, PA 18301
For more information on this great group of local students, visit: www.youthinfusion.org and www.urbanmountainvoices.org
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Our success depends on you ~ supporting innovation and creativity in using recycled products, and I encourage everyone to be part of the solution and find something on our gardening to-do list for 2010 projects around your home, business or community:
l Plant a raised garden from plastic wood logs.
l Create a path using glass mulch, clean, safe to walk on, natural deterrent to slugs.
l Border your property or edging with plastic post and rail fencing ~ looks like real wood.
l Create a compost pile using plastic wood compost bins.
l Build a treehouse from plastic logs.
l Hang a tire swing, put rubber mulch under any fall zones / playground equipment.
l Build a rock climbing wall with rubber mulch underneath the fall zone, border it with rubber timbers.
l Cover that old deck with new rubber tiles to add comfort, beauty and slip-resistance from falls, also reduces yearly maintenance.
l Use glass mulch in an old leaky bird bath, or create a simulated waterfall in your yard with glass, never fades!
l Create a firepit and add glass mulch for a stunning new look.
l For a sidewalk, instead of using concrete, use rubber walkways and rubber timbers.
l For events/fundraisers, hand out our imprinted newspaper pencils, made from rolled-up newspapers. 5% OFF newspaper pencils NOW THROUGH MARCH 31ST!
l Incorporate garden art with recycled materials: tea lights from bicycle parts, rubber floor mat, an old boot or chair as a planter, or tire planter shaped into a bird.
l Create a peaceful zen garden with glass sand or glass mulch (size #1 rakes nice).
l Create a sand-box using post-consumer glass play sand ~ safe, crystalline silica-free sand, safer than regular sand! (Crystalline silica is found in 90-100% of regular sand and is considered a carcinogen).
I think you will discover our products are so unique that you will be the 1st on your block (probably in your whole town) with the latest green products which will reduce your maintenance and are truly a beautiful transformation of waste materials into useful, durable products. Be a pioneer, an innovator, a visionary, a leader, a trendsetter ~ be the change!
Contact us!
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CLOSETHELOOP takes all major credit cards & paypal ~ Build a better world and purchase your recycled products here!
Please visit
Close the Loop
on the web:
www.closetheloop.com
Close the Loop offers a wide variety of innovative recycled products and green building materials, including rubber mulch, recycled rubber tiles/pavers & rubber timbers for playground safety surfacing & horse footing for equestrian arena, plastic post & rail fencing, raised garden beds, garden glass, cocoa shell mulch and tire swings. We also offer recycled gifts and promotional pens/pencils, along with many other hand-made unique products of high-quality and workmanship by local artisans, see products.
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Replacing a roof or building a new home? Contact Alan from Siberini Recycling to drop off a container at the job site to take-back these waste materials (drywall, shingles, wood & cardboard) and recycle them into useful raw materials ~ save $$$ over cost to landfill.
30,000 LBS Weathered Gray Shredded Rubber Mulch Looking to move 30,000 lbs, packaged in 800 lb +/- boxes, available for immediate shipment ~ Looks beautiful ~ very comfortable to walk on! Made in Pennsylvania. Contact us!
Horse Footing ~ Many tons available for immediate shipping from PA. Can also be used on Rock Climbing Gyms, Shooting Ranges, Volleyball Courts, Walking Trails, Rooftop Gardens. ~ Made in Pennsylvania. Playground rubber also available. Contact us!
New Rubber Tiles / Walkways: 24”x24”x1/2” ~ we have 100 blue, 100 green, 50 terracotta available for immediate shipping at $ 11.25 each + shipping ~ Made in California.
Contact Us!
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Website Building Workshops ~ offered free from Close the Loop:
After spending 15 years in corporate America, leaving that world and starting my own business, Close the Loop, in the era of the DOT COM’s, being successful at it, then seeing the market collapse in 2008 and long unemployment lines in our area, I decided I wanted to do something about it. If only these people could see how easy it is to start and run their own internet business on a very limited budget ($5-$10 per month) with a minimum amount of computer experience.
Some Background Info:
Close the Loop, LLC, a small business founded 10 years ago to help US manufacturers build the market for high quality recycled products from our waste materials (tires, plastics & glass, etc) at no cost to the manufacturer. This business model works ~ performance-based income. If we can build the demand for US made goods, we will create more jobs as the demand increases. We believe we need to get back to manufacturing in the USA, and support these manufacturers by purchasing and using their products. Our focus in writing this book is to have entrepreneurs help the manufacturers in the US to sell their products in all corners of the world ~ Manufacturing jobs have dropped to their lowest level since 1941, below 9% of workforce for the first time.
If you are out of work, underemployed, thinking of changing jobs/career paths/micro-manufacturing/home-based business, download our free e-book:
Building a Business Website on a Shoestring Budget
Please stay in touch & let me know how you’re doing, or what problems you’re encountering…best to you in creating your own meaningful and purposeful work focusing on the triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit
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Inspirational Quotes
“We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.” ~ Ed Begley, Jr.
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” ~ Ross Perot
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” ~ Chief Seattle, 1855
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