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Green Spotlight
Local body shop switches to environmentally friendly paints
Bill Seals, owner of Harbourtown Auto Body, poses with a pair of bottles of Envirobase, a water-based paint product. (Photo by Steve Manheim, The Chronicle-Telegram.)
By Steve Fogarty, The Chronicle-Telegram
A local auto body shop is among the very first in Lorain County to go green and chuck environmentally unfriendly and unhealthy solvent-and-thinner-based paint for repaired or restored vehicles.
Harbourtown Auto Body Inc. made the switch to waterborne, or water-based, paints about a month ago, according to owner Bill Seals, who said the pro-environment paints produce very good color matches, and in some cases, closer matches to factory colors than were possible with chemically mixed paints. (more…)
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Recycle! Every ten aluminum cans recycled saves four pounds of carbon. Every ten glass bottles recycled saves three pounds of carbon. Recycling newspapers saves fifty pounds of carbon per year. In fact, if everyone in America simply recycled paper, plastic, glass and aluminum products we would decrease the amount of waste sent to landfills by 75%! |
Don't light up when your office is vacant...or when there is sufficient natural light. Doing this will save approximately 18 percent of the energy used to light offices. Learn more about how you and your co-workers or employees can save valuable energy at work. |
