Best Green Program: Ecology Action of Texas

Submitted by brent on October 20, 2011 - 8:38am

2011 Austin Chronicle Best of Austin

Austin's Ecology Action of Texas by the numbers: 

  • 232,000: kilowatt-hours of electricity saved by aluminum recycling
  • 16,924: trees saved by recycling paper
  • 4,432: gallons of fuel oil saved by recycling glass
  • 3,285: cubic yards of landfill space saved by recycling paper
  • 2000: the year EA became a worker-run coop
  • 1979: the year EA of Texas was founded
  • 650: EA's Industrial Workers of the World Local Industrial Union number
  • 501(c)(3): the type of nonprofit EA is
  • 24-7: hours each day/days each week that certain recyclable materials are accepted at the Ninth Street drop spot
  • 10%: the amount of the city's volume in recycling covered by its efforts in 2007
  • 1: Anyone. Even you. Even if you don't live in a house. You can recycle. With the help of the local heroes at EA, you can change the world.
Ecology Action is Austin's downtown recycling center. We are located at 9th Street and IH-35. We are open to drop recycling materials 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (Please don't leave materials we do not take after hours). We are staffed 9am-5pm, 7 days a week except on major holidays and May Day (May 1st).

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