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The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge removed a huge amount of electronic waste and pharmaceuticals from eight states.
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills.
These goals were exceeded many times over.
A few examples:
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In Milwaukee: 32 tons of electronic waste and 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals were turned in.
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At the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin near Green Bay: Approx. 4 tons of e-waste was collected plus thousands of pounds of other trash cleaned from reservation
Tribal members turned in ver 23 pounds of medicines including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries.
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In Traverse City: Over 28,750 pounds (over 12.5 tons) of…

EPA Regional Admin. Mary Gade: Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge a success & U.S. environment care has come far in past 40 years when Ohio rivers burned, Lake Michigan steel mill air pollution was thicker than fog
(Chicago, Illinois) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Mary A. Gade celebrated Earth Day 2008 with crowds gathered at Daley Plaza in Chicago.
Gade encouraged everyone to participate in the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that runs through the end of April.
While some events were held last weekend, many of the challenge electronic and pharmaceutical collections are this Saturday, April 26 across eight states.
During the event, Gade and other EPA officials dropped their unwanted medications into a collection barrel.
Gade noted how far the fight to protect the environment in America has come over the past 40 years - reminding Chicago residents there was a time when it was necessary to turn…

EPA Regional Admin. Mary Gade: Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge a success & U.S. environment care has come far in past 40 years when Ohio rivers burned, Lake Michigan steel mill air pollution was thicker than fog
(Chicago, Illinois) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Mary A. Gade celebrated Earth Day 2008 with crowds gathered at Daley Plaza in Chicago.
Gade encouraged everyone to participate in the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that runs through the end of April.
While some events were held last weekend, many of the challenge electronic and pharmaceutical collections are this Saturday, April 26 across eight states.
During the event, Gade and other EPA officials dropped their unwanted medications into a collection barrel.
Gade noted how far the fight to protect the environment in America has come over the past 40 years - reminding Chicago residents there was a time when it was necessary to turn…

(Marquette, Michigan) - The Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge has entered its biggest week with help from interfaith groups and American Indians in reaching the goal of one million pounds of electronics and one million pills.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the challenge to Great Lakes basin residents participating in over 100 projects in literally hundreds of communities that are collecting pharmaceuticals, electronics and household poisons. The EPA awarded grants to some of the projects.
Interfaith groups are volunteering in the challenge and participating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania with assistance from an EPA grant that helped start the new non-profit Earth Healing Initiative (EHI).
Trust between religions and participating in interfaith environment projects are vital to protect the future of the earth, said a Lutheran bishop, who has participated in numerous Earth Day recycling projects.
"We are in an environmental crisis in many ways," said…

Milwaukee, Wisconsin hosts two Earth Day 2008 events: Pharmaceutical and e-waste collections planned as part of EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is underway with about 100 projects in hundreds of communities across eight states including two events in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is expanding its third annual Medicine Collection Day to include four counties.
Named “A prescription for clean water and safe kids,” the pharmaceutical collections will be held on April 19 in Milwaukee, Racine, Ozaukee, and Washington counties.
Meanwhile - the city of Milwaukee is hosting an electronic waste collection for its residents on Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The e-Waste collection will be held in a parking lot just south of Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee.
City of Milwaukee residents are invited to bring their unwanted televisions and computer equipment to this…

Earth Healing Initiative: Duluth, MN holds Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
Duluth, MN - Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day: EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
Duluth, Minnesota: Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day
The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is underway with about 100 projects in hundreds of communities across eight states including Duluth, Minnesota
In Duluth, "Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day" offers residents free, safe disposal of unwanted medications.
The Earth Healing Initiative has put our local interfaith liaison in touch with Duluth officials.
He’s Rev. Doug Paulson - a campus pastor at the University of Minnesota - Lutheran Campus Ministry.
“Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day” in the Duluth, Minnesota area is April 26.
The drive-thru event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) HHW Facility (2626 Courtland St.) in Duluth.
Gina Temple-Rhodes, the district’s environmental program coordinator, said "residents should bring medications in their…

(Marquette, Michigan - The Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge has entered its biggest week with help from interfaith groups and American Indians in reaching the goal of one million pounds of electronics and one million pills.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the challenge to Great Lakes basin residents participating in over 100 projects in literally hundreds of communities that are collecting pharmaceuticals, electronics and household poisons. The EPA awarded grants to some of the projects.
Interfaith groups are volunteering in the challenge and participating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania with assistance from an EPA grant that helped start the new non-profit Earth Healing Initiative (EHI).
Trust between religions and participating in interfaith environment projects are vital to protect the future of the earth, said a Lutheran bishop, who has participated in numerous Earth Day recycling projects.
“We are in an environmental crisis in many ways,” said…

Earth Healing Initiative: Tipping point for faith groups
Environmental tipping point: Faith communities have a duty to protect the Earth, and Native Americans, other Indigenous peoples can teach us a lot about respecting nature
(Marquette, Michigan) - The new non-profit Earth Healing Initiative, based in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is honoring faith-based and Native American environmental projects across the Great Lakes.
The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative (EHI) is currently collaborating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to promote the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge involving about 37 projects in eight states including providing faith community volunteers where needed and spreading the word about the event in churches and temples.
Faith communities across the Great Lakes basin will be involved in the challenge and other Earth Day events.
The EHI is one of several faith-based environment projects created by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan.
Rev. Jon Magnuson said it is important for people of…

An Introduction: The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative & Earth Day 2008
Numerous faith communities, American Indian tribes and many others being encouraged to volunteer or participate in a large eight-state Earth Day 2008 project with events across the Great Lakes Basin through mid-May.
The new Earth Healing Initiative (EHI) is organizing faith communities. The EHI is one of numerous environment and Native American projects founded by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan.
Collection sites will accept old/broken computers, cell phones, TVs and other electronics to be recycled, and old/unwanted medicines to be properly disposed during the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The EPA awarded grants to some of the over 100 project sites in hundreds of communities where residents can drop off e-waste and old/unwanted pharmaceuticals at collection sites..
The Michigan Earth Keeper Initiative, co-founded by the Cedar Tree Institute, have alliances with ten faith traditions across the Upper Peninsula, and the…