Air Cycle CEO Elected to ALMR Board

We're pleased to announce that Air Cycle Corporation's CEO, Scott Beierwaltes, has been elected to a two-year membership on the board of the Association of Lighting and Mercury Recyclers (ALMR)!

ALMR is dedicated to working with recyclers of lighting and mercury like Air Cycle and to education about mercury and recycling regulations.

Board members are tasked to serve and advise ALMR-member lighting and mercury recyclers, a responsibility echoed in Air Cycle's Core Values of Teamwork and Expertise.

Please join us, as we congratulate Scott!

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Congratulations, 2012 TOBY® Award Winners!

The BOMA TOBY® Award competition for excellence in building management yet again included buildings powered by Air Cycle recycling solutions. Congratulations to our four regional winners and national nominees for 2012! They are:

Balfour Beatty Center (Plantation, FL) - Pointe Group Advisors

Butler Plaza (Jacksonville, FL) - Liberty Property Trust

100 Congress (Austin, TX) - CBRE

Kilroy Santa Fe Summit (San Diego, CA) - Kilroy Realty Corporation

The Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) is awarded by the Building Owners and Managers Assocation (BOMA), and recognizes quality in buildings and building management. Buildings are judged in multiple areas
from community involvement to environmental policies and procedures.

Air Cycle offers comprehensive universal waste (UW) recycling programs that include Custom Portals for easy program management and Air Cycle's award-winning Bulb Eater® lamp crushing system and EasyPak™ prepaid mail-in containers.

To learn more click here , or download the recent corporate UW recycling whitepaper.

Air Cycle at LFI 2012

In this video, check out the excitement at LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI) 2012 in this video, where this week Air Cycle is showcasing the Bulb Eater® and EasyPak™ recycling programs. LFI 2012, the world's largest lighting trade expo, is featuring over 500 exhibitors and is expected to host over 20,000 attendees.

Dozens of industry knowledge-building courses, including the lighting retrofit and upgrade seminar track, are available at the event.

Watch the video and learn more »

Even if you can't make it to the tradeshow to see the industry-leading programs offered by Air Cycle, you can still learn about them online! Check out the Bulb Eater® lamp crusher, which often saves large facilities up to 50% in recycling costs, and EasyPak™ mail-in containers, which make recycling simple at small facilities. Learn more » Air Cycle lamp recycling programs

Air Cycle at Upcoming Tradeshows

At Air Cycle, we love giving facility managers a chance to experience our products firsthand and learn how they can make recycling easy and efficient for their facilities.

Air Cycle Account Representatives Rod Kincaid and Justin Hayes will do just that at booth #5547 of the upcoming Light Fair International tradeshow on May 9-11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.

If you are located in the Midwest, see products and meet Air Cycle Account Representatives Norm Ege and Sean Rocke, along with COO Tim Racke, at booth #220 of the Greening the Heartland conference at the Indianapolis Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN, May 16-18.

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Lighting Upgrade: Energy and Financial Savings

What is better than improving the sustainability of an institutional or commercial facility? Saving money at the same time! And according to this article from Maintenance Solutions, one way to do that is with a lighting upgrade.

The article includes a case study to explain how an upgrade to high-efficiency lighting can reduce the energy consumption of a facility, minimizing the environmental impact of energy use and the financial cost of paying for it.

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A lighting system upgrade is a great way to cut energy costs, protecting the environment and the facility budget. But any old fluorescent lamps from the retrofit must be recycled to keep their toxic mercury out of the environment and to stay compliant with recycling regulations. The time and space-saving Bulb Eater® lamp crusher makes it easy. Learn more » Bulb Eater® lamp crusher

Made in Chicago, Recycling 'Round the World

The Bulb Eater® is used around the world to recycle spent fluorescent lamps at facilities in dozens of countries on five continents, but is built at Air Cycle's Chicagoland headquarters and was recently featured on the CBS Chicago WBBM Newsradio show "Made in Chicago."

Listen in as reporter Dave Berner explains how Air Cycle and the Bulb Eater are helping facilities save our planet, one bulb at a time!

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The Bulb Eater® lamp crusher can save facility managers up to 50% in overall lamp recycling costs by reducing labor requirements by up to 20 hours per 1,000 lamps and storage requirements by up to 80%. Learn more » Bulb Eater® lamp crusher

Go Green for Earth Day

Last weekend, thousands celebrated Earth Day on April 22. The UN-designated event is held in over 175 countries around the world, and began in 1970, bringing increased awareness of the need to protect the environment.

At Air Cycle, we're happy to be helping build awareness of why mercury-containing wastes are dangerous, the harm to the environment of improperly disposing of them, and the ways that they can be safely and efficiently recycled.

We offer EasyPak™ prepaid mail-in containers for recycling spent fluorescent lamps, ballasts, batteries, and electronic waste at small facilities. Our Bulb Eater® lamp crusher safely compacts and stores spent lamps prior to recycling for large facilities, reducing overall recycling costs by up to 50%.

Why not take a moment in honor of Earth Day to learn how recycling can be cost-effective, and can help keep your facility and the environment free of the hazards of mercury?

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