FreeCycle Super Success!

We will post plenty of pictures of Eco Alley and the FreeCycle at today's Garden Fest in Chestnut Hill but I wanted to waste no time in thanking everyone! 
Thank you to all of the citizens who donated books, dvd's and cd's. We estimate 1,500-2,000 pieces were brought to Valley Green Bank over the past 3 days-- WOW!
Thank you to Valley Green Bank for allowing their Chestnut Hill branch to be a FreeCycle drop off point for 3 days!! (and Nick for helping haul them onto Eco Alley)
Thank you to all of the excited festival goes who rummaged through boxes and boxes of FREE books and left with nearly everything!
Our first foray into FreeCycling proved such a huge success we plan to do a "full on" FreeCycle event very soon, independent of festivals.
Keep checking back for details!

Eco Alley at the Garden Fest this Sunday May 6th from 11am-5pm!

Eco Alley returns for its 3rd year at the Chestnut Hill Home and Garden Festival Sunday May 6th from 11am-5pm. In addition to the hottest small businesses around like Philadelphia Salvage, Stable Tables and EcoQuette, there will be live music and kiddie yoga! Yoga instructor Deirdre Kilkenny of Nature Yoga will be leading a yoga session for 5-8 year olds at 12:00--it's FREE and first come, first served! Local musicians Urban Drawl led by Jason Fifield will be jammin' out the New Grass tunes. The little ones especially love their knee slappin' music.
And NEW this year: A FreeCycle event. See info on the post below.

FreeCycle on Eco Alley at the Garden Fest!!

Free-Cycling Event!!
New this year on Eco Alley at the CH Garden Festival
Sunday, May 6th, 11a-5p
A Free-cycle event is like a yard sale where everything is free. The idea is to give away what you no longer want or need; it’s the "reuse" part of "reduce, reuse, recycle" taken to the next level! It’s about giving and receiving.
Green in Chestnut Hill will be hosting our first Free-cycle on Eco Alley this year. Local contributions of Books, CD's and DVD's (only those three types of items, please) may be dropped off in advance of the event at the Chestnut Hill branch of Valley Green Bank on Thursday or Friday, May 3rd or 4th, between 8am and 6pm or Saturday, May 5th between 9am and 1pm. Valley Green Bank is located at 23 W. Highland Avenue in Chestnut Hill.
We hope you will stop by the Free-Cycle tent on Eco Alley on May 6th and help yourself to some treasure! For more information, please contact: chefamybeth@gmail.com

Weird Waste Day last Saturday was a huge success! Supportive residents from Chestnut Hill, Mt Airy and beyond came with carloads of Electronic Waste to be recycled. GRinCH helped divert over 16,000 pounds of EWaste which will be dismantled responsibly by EForce Compliance a local recycler. Thanks to our new partnership with Norwood Fontbonne Academy we had a smooth drop off process. And thank you to Joan, Brenda, Lana, Zeta, Linda, Lee, Noreen, Alix and our student volunteers!

 In the vein of recycling, GRinCH is hosting Chestnut Hill's first FreeCycle event! FreeCycling is passing things on "yard sale style" but everything is free! There will be free books, dvd's and cd's.

It will take place on Eco Alley at the Chestnut Hill Garden Festival on Sunday May 6th. Eco Alley is located on West Highland Ave.

 Local contributions of Books, CD's and DVD's (only those three types of items, please) may be dropped off in advance of the event at the Chestnut Hill branch of Valley Green Bank on Thursday or Friday, May 3rd or 4th, between 8am and 6pm or Saturday, May 5th between 9am and 1pm. Valley Green Bank is located at 23 W. High- land Avenue in Chestnut Hill.

Weird Waste Day Sat.--RAIN or SHINE!

What: Responsible Electronic Waste Recycling
When: Saturday April 21,2012
Where: Norwood Academy Germantown campus parking lot at 8891 Germantown Ave. Chestnut Hill
Time: 1 pm-4 pm

Suggested donation: $5 to $20 (all proceeds benefit GRinCH and are fully tax deductible)

FREE RAIN BARRELS!!

Rain barrels are storage containers that collect rainwater from downspouts. The water can be used for purposes such as gardening, washing down patio furniture, and lawn watering. They also reduce the flow of water into the sewage stream. We recently learned that the Energy Coordinating Agency and the Philadelphia Water Department are providing free rain barrels to Philadelphia residents at two upcoming workshops next week. The details for each event are below. By attending either workshop you can sign up to receive a free rain barrel, which will be delivered and installed at your home! There's no need to register--you can just show up.

Monday, April 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
at True Light Church, 6400 Ardleigh Street

Thursday, April 12, 2012, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
at Auditorium at Center in the Park, 5818 Germantown Avenue
(parking available at 36 West Rittenhouse Street)

For questions or additional information, contact Ashley Schmid at 215.844.8100 or ashley@ttfwatershed.org

Items Accepted for Electronics Recycling at Weird Waste Day (no recycling fee)

Desktop Computing

desktops, mini-towers, laptops and handhelds, notebooks, tablets, hard drives

Printers

laserjets, deskjets, thermal, dot matrix, line printers, plotters, paper trays

Peripherals

keyboards, mice, power supplies, cables, speakers, external drives, etc.

Monitors

CRTs, LCDs,WYSE terminals, etc.

Office Equipment

copiers, scanners, fax machines, typewriters

Audio/Video Equipment

tv's and displays, vcr/dvd players, projectors, video and audio conferencing systems, smart/electronic white boards

Mobile Devices

cellular phones, Blackberry/PDAs, pagers

Telecom Equipment

telephones, switches, PBX, voice mail and VoIP systems, voice stations headsets

Storage Equipment

video tapes, audio tapes, CD's tape, hard, thumb flash and zip drives, data backup systems, disk arrays, SAN

Mainframes

mid-range and servers, power conditioning/UPS systems cabinets, relay racks

Networking Equipment

hubs, cables, routers, switches, bridges

Household:

microwaves, dehumidifiers, air-conditioners, vacuum cleaners, metals- aluminum, steel, copper, cameras, video games, ipods, iphones, ipads

Parts

AC adapters, memory, motherboards, network, sound and video cards, CD/DVD drives

Healthcare Equipment

All non-biohazardous equipment: defibrillators, EKG machines, mobile carts/workstations, patient monitors

Banking

currency and coin counters, transaction drawers, check encoders and scanners, receipt printers, ATM machines

Point-of-Sale:

POS systems/registers, barcode scanners, receipt and barcode printers, card readers, touch screen monitors

Other Items Accepted for a small charge:

Household batteries--you may recycle up to 2 lbs of batteries at no charge. Each additional lb. will be charged at $0.75/lb.

Florescent bulbs (compact and regular)--you may recycle up to 3 bulbs at no charge. Each additional bulb will be charged at $0.50/bulb