Let’s fix it. We’ll have a group discussion about resetting your existing workplace recycling program. Learn tips and tricks to help revamp and improve your at-work program. The 30-minute presentation includes group discussion and idea sharing. 

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DON’T’ FLUSH YOUR MEDS…JOIN SLATS FOR THE NORTHEAST OHIO REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT’S PITCH THOSE PILLS - PHARMACEUTICAL COLLECTION OF YOUR UNUSED AND EXPIRED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FOR SAFE DISPOSAL! PITCH THOSE PILLS WITH 98.5 WNCX CLEVELAND’S CLASSIC ROCK!

Some adults remember the days when it was common to flush old pharmaceuticals down the toilet. That way, they were gone without the risk posed by just disposing of them in the trash. But flushing your meds poses other problems.

Flushing pills down the toilet can be a water quality issue because wastewater treatment plants are not equipped to remove pharmaceuticals from the wastewater. Those medications could affect the environment and endanger public health.

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Learn about culture shift and recycling, and how it affects your workplace recycling program. Develop a proper waste reduction and recycling atmosphere in your organization while learning how to educate and communicate to effect behavior change. The 30-minute presentation is followed by optional group discussion. Free, open to the public. Learn more about this workplace series.

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Discover the truths about workplace recycling. We examine facts vs. fiction about recycling and the recycling process. Gain new confidence about your at-work recycling program to help engage, support, and encourage co-workers how to recycle right. The 30-minute presentation is followed by optional group discussion.

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Amnesty recycling event for small propane tanks, including camp stove, lantern or torch tanks (usually 2# or less), from residents of Cuyahoga County. Tanks from businesses, grill tanks, helium tanks, oxygen cylinders, welding tanks, refrigerant and other cylinders will not be accepted. Learn more about disposing of propane tanks and other cylinders.

Contamination in your recycling bins? Recyclables in your trash? Join us for top tips about correctly capturing the right materials in your at-work recycling bins. The 30-minute presentation is followed by optional group discussion. 

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PRESENTER: DR. KATHRYN FLINN

Associate Professor of Biology,
Baldwin Wallace University

Join local ecologist Dr. Kathryn Flinn for a talk about what Northeast Ohio’s landscape was like when Moses Cleaveland arrived and how exactly it has changed since then. Dr. Flinn will present evidence from tree rings, local old-growth forests, and the earliest land surveys to describe our natural heritage and demonstrate the many ways human activities have shaped it over the past 250 years. Learn what to look for in the woods, what makes Northeast Ohio special, and what we can do now to cherish it. Bring your questions! 

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