75k Refrigerators Will Power Cape Cod Landmark For 12,000 Years

About the Program:
Mass Save® – Eversource, Cape Light Compact, National Grid, and Unitil – announced a milestone 75,000 refrigerators recycled through a statewide recycling program and energy savings initiative.

In recycling 75,000 refrigerators and freezers, Mass Save and Massachusetts residents have reclaimed up to 1,875,000 pounds of plastic, 75,000 pounds of insulating foam and 224,000 pounds of metal. The reduction in energy use could save up to 105 million kilowatt-hours annually.

The Mass Save® refrigerator recycling program encourages customers to reduce their energy use by recycling old, second refrigerators and freezers. The program offers free pickup of refrigerators and freezers and a $50 reward.

What Does These Mean for the Cape?:
Recycled, up to 95% of the refrigerator’s components (including metal, plastic, glass and oil) can be reclaimed for reuse in manufacturing new products or incinerated to generate electricity, while any remaining harmful materials can be safely disposed.

To illustrate the weight of 75,000 refrigerators recycled properly, Mass Save has prepared a series of factoids such as foam-filled halls of fame, atmospheric towers of soda cans and a Cape Cod landmark powered for over 12,000 years from a single year of energy savings.

In fact, with the energy saved in one year from recycling 75,000 refrigerators, you could string the entire 560 mile coastline of Cape Cod with 10W LED lamps at 40 lamps per mile and keep them lit every night for an entire year.

Looking for one bright light? That same energy saved could power Martha’s Vineyard’s 1000W Gay Head Light for up to 12 thousand years. That’s turning the lighthouse on beside the last of the wooly mammoths and saber toothed tigers and never turning it off until this year’s relocation of the landmark.

More information about the Mass Save refrigerator recycling program is available online at www.MassSave.com/Recycle.

About Mass Save:

Mass Save is an initiative sponsored by Massachusetts’ gas and electric utilities and energy efficiency service provider. The Sponsors of Mass Save work closely with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources to provide a wide range of services, incentives, trainings, and information promoting energy efficiency that help residents and businesses manage energy use and related costs. For more information, please visit: www.masssave.com.

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