Comments on: McCain Campaign Advisors Paid to Stop Cape Wind Renewable Energy Project http://earthfirst.com/mccain-campaign-advisors-paid-to-stop-cape-wind-renewable-energy-project/ A Sharp Eye -- With a Green Edge Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:33:14 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rabbi Jon Adland http://earthfirst.com/mccain-campaign-advisors-paid-to-stop-cape-wind-renewable-energy-project/comment-page-1/#comment-6218 Rabbi Jon Adland Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:45:06 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=977#comment-6218 I have no idea where to address this issue so my internet search led me to you. My name is Rabbi Jon Adland and I serve a large Jewish congregation in Indianapolis. For the last year we have been collecting medicine bottles to send to an organization that sends them to Africa for use in pill distribution there. Our congregation collects thousands of these bottles from our members. Most of the bottles are the orange ones that the pharmacies distribute. They are made from #5 plastic which isn't easy for us to get recycled out here. I have contacted Lilly Pharmaceutical and Butler University College of Pharmacy to determine if there is a reason that these bottles need to be made from #5 plastic because of the pills. The answer is not that they can determine. Thus, I am trying to learn a route that can be taken to get these bottles made from a more "eco-friendly" plastic (if there is such a thing" that be more easily recycled. I am just one person in the middle of the country, but I have to believe that we don't need to fill up our land fills with these bottles. If our one congregation is collection thousands of these bottles there has to be millions of them being used at any one time. I would love an answer, some help, a direction, some support, or for you to tell me to forget this. Rabbi Jon Adland Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation I have no idea where to address this issue so my internet search led me to you. My name is Rabbi Jon Adland and I serve a large Jewish congregation in Indianapolis. For the last year we have been collecting medicine bottles to send to an organization that sends them to Africa for use in pill distribution there. Our congregation collects thousands of these bottles from our members. Most of the bottles are the orange ones that the
pharmacies distribute. They are made from #5 plastic which isn’t easy for us to get recycled out here. I have contacted Lilly Pharmaceutical and Butler University College of Pharmacy to determine if there is a reason that these bottles need to be made from #5 plastic because of the pills. The answer is not that they can determine. Thus, I am trying to learn a route that can be taken to get these bottles made from a more “eco-friendly” plastic (if there is such a thing” that be more easily recycled. I am just one person in the middle of the country, but I have to believe that we don’t need to fill up our land fills with these bottles. If our one congregation is collection thousands of these bottles there has
to be millions of them being used at any one time.

I would love an answer, some help, a direction, some support, or for you to
tell me to forget this.

Rabbi Jon Adland
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation

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