Environmentalists who play the guitar—listen up. The Instrumental Music Center is celebrating Earth Day and National Guitar Month in a way that will help you rock your world.
The center will host a guitar recycling and restringing event on Thursday, April 7. All you have to do is bring in old guitar strings, and event sponsor D’Addario’s people will restring your instrument—electric or acoustic—with NYXL or nickel bronze acoustic strings for free.
The event is part of Playback, D’Addario’s national program that helps guitarists recycle their strings at no charge. The initiative, which D’Addario’s press release writes is the first of its kind, is the result of partnership between the company and international recycling giant TerraCycle—D’Addario does the gathering, TerraCyle does the physical recycling.
D’Addario is also trying to give back to the music community through the restring/recycle event. Members of D’Addario’s Player’s Circle—the company’s loyalty program—will receive a code at the International Music Center for loyalty points which they can donate to the D’Addario Foundation, a nonprofit that supports music education in lower socio-economic communities in the United States.
The event starts at 1 and runs until 7:30 p.m. Get more information here.
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2016.
Too bad the greenies are totally ignorant on physics.
The amount of energy to process recycles is far greater than not.
But it makes ‘greenies”, i.e. communists, feel good, at the cost to middle class Americans.
With recycling market in the dumps, Tucson may charge new fee
“It costs more than $200,000 for the city to process recyclables it picks up from the big blue bins outside homes and businesses.”
“Revenue from the sale of recycled items has dropped from nearly $1.9 million five years ago to $405,260 so far this year, with three months left to go in the fiscal year, said Environmental Services director Andy Quigley.”
http://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/with-recycling-market-in-the-dumps-tucson-may-charge-new/article_e5035da5-4756-5c61-b330-bac565b164ce.html#utm_source=tucson&utm_campaign=most-popular-tabs-2&utm_medium=direct
Just keep strummin’ and singin’. You’ll feel so good.
“What, Again”, you’re just a regular old ray of sunshine, aren’t you? 😀
Posters above aren’t taking into account the costs to open new landfills when the old ones are used up.
Also not considering the uncharged costs of producing new materials (i.e., deforestation, watershed degradation) that aren’t figured into the sticker price but end up costing us in the long run.
Don’t hate new thoughts and ideas.
@bslap no, posters above are just angry about something…putting the word physics in your post might be taken as mansplaining in this instance. It’s patiently obvious that digging the stuff up, refining it, then melting it down is considerably less efficient than taking something already dug up and refined and just melting it down again. And if people think the price of recyclables is going down, you should just compare that with the price of virgin steel sitting on the dock in shanghai – it’s all plumetting. We call this “deflation”. We call this all the working people got their jobs offshored and now they can’t afford to buy stuff anymore. Sux.