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Global Environmenal Services on Lee Cruse Live, WLEX 18

Lexington, KY – Electronic products waste, known as “e-waste,” with its huge volume and hazardous nature, poses a daunting challenge for our times. Global Environmental Services (GES), founded in 2008 by Kenny Gravitt, has stepped up to that challenge with a business model that distinguishes it from other recyclers.

Click the link below for the full story from Business Lexington.

Bluegrass company a leader in e-waste

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GES is very proud to receive a letter of commendation from Congressman Ben Chandler of Kentucky’s Sixth District. Mr. Chandler writes:

I had the opportunity to tour your facility last year during the August recess and was very impressed by your commitment to ensure e-waste is recycled in a responsible manner. To know that GES has a zero waste policy which means no waste enters our landfills and requires the same from its downstream partners, makes me very proud to have your facility located in my district.

Then he applauds GES on it’s affects on Kentucky’s community, environment and economy:

Small businesses are an important part of Kentucky’s economy, and I know GES has already grown in the short time since opening, creating much needed jobs here which cannot be shipped overseas. I commend your outstanding commitment to our environment as well as to our community, and applaud your company for being an e-steward.

You can read the full letter here

GEORGETOWN, KY, November 25, 2009 The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 in the month of October.  Some of greatest job losses were from the manufacturing industry.  So, it’s very interesting to note what is taking place at a small company in central Kentucky that is adding jobs consistently in the “de-manufacturing” industry. Continued…

By Thomas Musgrave
Georgetown News-Graphic

Georgetown may be ready to move toward offering curbside recycling in the new year.

Sharon Andrews, business development executive for Georgetown-based company Global Environmental Services, spoke at the Georgetown City Council meeting Monday night and pledged GES’s support for a curbside recycling initiative.

“We do have the capabilities to be a world-class recycling community,” Andrews said.

GES operates a 70,000-square-foot facility and recycles electronics components.

For full story, check out Thursday’s News-Graphic. Continued…

This report from 60 Minutes brought millions of people out of the darkness about the underground network of e-waste disposal in third world countries.

This video, Exporting Harm, is from the Basel Action Network (BAN)

This video from the Basel Action Network (BAN) highlights the e-Stewards program.

This video from CBC TV highlights e-Waste throughout the world.