Elastec will be co-hosting a community cleanup day with the White County CEO program on Saturday January, 25th in the Elastec parking lot at 1309 W. Main St. From 11:00 am to 1:30 pm. White County citizens are encouraged to pick up trash, litter and debris from their neighborhoods and public areas. You are then invited to bring your collected litter to the Elastec facility for proper disposal. A SmartAsh Portable Incinerator will be on-site to help destroy collected litter. SmartAsh burns debris without creating smoke, fumes or odor.
White County CEO class will also be on site selling environment sustainability Green Bags which include reusable water bottles, bamboo cutlery, wool dryer balls and other environmentally friendly products. There will also be silent auctions on multiple items. Caveman Kitchen food truck will be on site selling food and drink.
Hazardous waste, chemicals, paint cans, electronics, yard waste, appliances and large trash will not be accepted. Contact Brian Cook at [email protected] with questions.
ABOUT ELASTEC
With 75 years of combined manufacturing experience, Elastec (Carmi and Fairfield, Illinois) and its American Marine division (Cocoa, Florida) design, develop and distribute environmental products such as oil spill response equipment, floating containment booms and barriers, and portable incinerators in 155 countries.
Elastec revolutionized oil spill recovery technology with the invention of the drum skimmer in 1990. Since then, the company has developed a broad portfolio of environmental cleanup products: oil skimmers, oil boom, boom reels, Hydro-Fire™ Boom, American Fireboom, BoomVaneTM, work boats, SmartAsh, MediBurn, and Drug Terminator incinerators, turbidity curtains, Brute Boom, and trash/debris devices to keep our world clean.
Elastec’s American Fireboom and Hydro-Fire® Boom systems were used extensively in the Deepwater Horizon incident for the insitu burning (ISB) of oil in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Elastec’s Hydro-Fire® Boom holds the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the “Longest Continuous Burn of Oil Spilled at Sea” for its performance during the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Elastec’s American Marine division in Florida has been manufacturing floating booms, barriers, baffles and turbidity curtains since 1967 to protect sensitive marine habitats from silt and sediment pollution as well as to control floating trash, debris and invasive aquatic weeds in our waterways, rivers and oceans. To learn more, visit www.elastec.com.
Contact: Brian Cook, Creative Services Manager [email protected] Office: 618.384.2749 Cell/Text: 812.459.3564
