Electronics recycling comes to Vail
Paper shredding is being added this year for residents who wish to shred documents in an environmentally friendly manner. Get the Lead Out will be hosted in Vail from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the town of Vail Municipal Building parking lot.Prior to stopping in Vail, the event will take place in Eagle at the City Market parking lot from noon-6 p.m. on Friday.The electronics recycling is provided by Guaranteed Recycling Xperts of Denver. GRX disassembles the electronics into its core components with a goal of 100 percent recycling. GRX ensures data security by physically destroying the hard drive and will provide a certificate guaranteeing the destruction of the disk. This service is $5 per computer or small printer, $10 for monitors (up to 17 inches) and larger printers.Very large items may cost more.
Shred for Good, PRI offer 'Free Shred Day'
PRI Productions and a division of a Clay county nonprofit organization are offering free document shredding Wednesday at PRI's San Marco offices.
Shred for Good, which employs the disabled at its secure document shredding operation in Green Cove Springs, will set up containers in PRI's parking lot on Kings Avenue to collect documents as well as compact discs, computer hard drives and DVDs. Shred for Good, which is a division of Challenge Enterprises of North Florida Inc., will be at PRI collecting documents and computer equipment from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 4.
Nancy Keating, executive director of Challenge Enterprises, said Shred for Good's typical clients are businesses and governments that need to dispose of sensitive documents on a regular basis.
"This type of service can be cost-prohibitive for smaller businesses and individuals that have personal documents they want safely destroyed," said Keating.
IT?S NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID! ? Jamyang Norbu
The most important political document of that period, sometimes referred to as The Drepung Manifesto, was authored by a group of Drepung monks and printed in the traditional manner with wooden blocks, as a eleven-page pamphlet. It is as clear a declaration of independence as you can get.
It has always appeared to me condescending, even somewhat racist, in the way western journalists and experts have insisted on interpreting events in Tibet in the most simplistic and one-dimensional of terms, ignoring the way Tibetans have been discussing, developing and defining their own distinct political and national identity through all these years.
We must bear in mind that these ideas were being discussed and expressed in Tibet when the economic situation in Tibet had improved considerably from the period before, in the seventies and early eighties, when people barely had enough to eat.
