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Panhandle Environmental Partnership December, 2011

Issue 12

November 15th was Texas Recycles Day as well as the kick-off for our 2011 Electronics Recycling Event. Com-munities will collect through December 15th. This event is of-fered free to Panhandle communities.

Communities have started to advertise and gather electronics from their offices and resi-dents. Electronics will be put on pallets and delivered to one of five loading points in the region: Dalhart, Cana-dian, Memphis, Tulia and Amarillo.

All pallets are due at the loading points by either Friday, December 16th or Monday the 19th. You will need to contact the loading points directly to make arrangements to drop-off your pallets.

Contact Elizabeth at PRPC for information 806-372-3381

Each year on Texas Recycles Day the PEP re-

views records for the pre-

vious year and awards top per-capita performing

communities.

Awards are given in

two separate categories:

Top Recycling Community and Top Composting

Community.

This year The PEP RE-CYCLING AWARD goes to

the City of Turkey, who

recycled 141 pounds per resident! WOW!

Turkey, at 421 resi-dents, is a great example

of a community never be-

ing too small to make a BIG difference!

The PEP COMPOSTING AWARD goes to the City

of Dumas. The City has

provided a Yard Waste Only Dumpster for every

15.63 residents, which can divert up to a ton of grass

clippings, leaves and small limbs per summer!

Great Job, Guys!

Texas Recycles Day Awards!

E-Recycling Event Underway!

Recycled Halloween

Decorations!

Items Accepted:

Computers

Laptops

Servers

Switches

Hubs

Copiers

Fax Machines

Scanners

Printers

Keyboards

Mice

Speakers

Monitors

Televisions

Cell Phones

Game Systems

MP3s

Other Electronics

Other Electronics

E-Facts! The US landfills

over two-million

tons of electronics

each year.

Electronics ac-

count for 70% of

the toxic waste in

American Landfills,

which can con-

taminate soil and

groundwater.

Computers contain

mercury and lead.

“Old School” Tele-

visions contain up

to five pounds of

lead.

Cell phones con-

tain lead , cad-

mium and/or lith-

ium.

For more information or pricing history visit the Solid Waste Section of the PRPC website at theprpc.org

M E M O R A N D U M DATE: Monday, November 28, 2011

TO: PEP Regional Marketing Contract Participants

FROM: Elizabeth Thomas, Regional Program Specialist

SUBJECT: CTRA Monthly Price Sheet –

Attached is the CTRA Price Sheet for November, 2011. There are drops in prices across the board. This is typical for this time of year but you can also see from the far right-hand column that the prices are way down from this time last year. I sent out an e-mail asking if anyone needed to clear-out bales before the holidays, but after seeing these prices I might encourage your to hold on to your bales as long as your can to see if the prices recover in the first quarter of 2012. Let me know if you need anything! Thank you for all you do for the Panhandle! -Elizabeth

COMMODITIES Aug-11 Sep-11% of

Change Oct-11% of

Change Nov-11% of

Change12-Month Change +

Steel Cans $240.00 250.00$ 4.17% 130.00$ -48.00% 130.00$ 0.00% -13.85%UBC (Aluminum Cans) $1,460.00 1,390.00$ -4.79% 1,190.00$ -14.39% 950.00$ -20.17% -45.26%PET $322.00 340.00$ 5.59% 358.00$ 5.29% 278.00$ -22.35% 6.47%HDPE Natural $430.00 430.00$ 0.00% 430.00$ 0.00% 410.00$ -4.65% -2.93%HDPE Colored $124.00 196.00$ 58.06% 232.00$ 18.37% 252.00$ 8.62% 0.00%HDPE & PET scale price scale price NA scale price NA scale price 0 NAOCC (Corrugated) $146.00 141.50$ -3.08% 131.50$ -7.07% 86.50$ -34.22% -56.07%Deink (#8 News) $114.50 114.50$ 0.00% 114.50$ 0.00% 69.50$ -39.30% -15.68%Mixed Paper $111.00 100.50$ 10.66% 90.50$ -9.95% 60.50$ -33.15% -48.35%ONP (#6 News) $69.50 69.50$ 0.00% 69.50$ 0.00% 59.50$ -14.39% -10.92%SOW (High Grade Office) $240.00 222.00$ -7.50% 212.00$ -4.50% 85.00$ -59.91% -113.12%White Ledger $285.00 276.00$ -3.16% 256.00$ -7.25% 186.00$ -27.34% -29.57%CPO Computer Paper $240.00 231.00$ -3.75% 211.00$ -8.66% 151.00$ -28.44% -65.56%

Emboldened Commodities indicates those materials for which guaranteed floor prices have been set.Emboldened Amounts indicates that the floor prices have been reached.Direct Mill Runs are available for full loads of a single baled commodity and can be shipped at no cost to the member.

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