SUSTAINABLE OCEAN CITY
COMMUNITY ACTION
The Town of Ocean City established a committee called the “Green Team“. This is a group of individuals that are focused on protecting the resources of the community. They also are working to gather information on the specific actions outlined in the Sustainable Maryland Certified Program to get Ocean City Certified Sustainable! This website will highlight all that is being done to be a sustainable community.
TOPICS
Buying Local Why?
- Re-circulate purchasing dollars
- Potentially increases tax revenues
- Enhance the livability of the community
- Brings stability and diversity to the local economy
- Job creation
- Reduction of greenhouse emissions as consumers travel less
Local Business Directories
The Hotel Motel Restaurant Association and the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce have local business directories at the following links:
Ocean City Businesses
- Town of Ocean City
- Atlantic Oceanfront Inn
- Hilton Suites Oceanfront
- LaQuinta Inn & Suites – Ocean City
- Shenanigan’s Pub
- Ultra Solar & Wind Solutions, LLC
- Mother’s Cantina and Tortilla Shop
Energy
Trash to Energy – Recycling
Just a different way of thinking and doing recycling!
Recycling Dilemma
This is an interesting article on the evolution of recycling and problem and issues that have arise.
Natural Resources
Watershed Stewardship
Homeowners Guide to the Coastal Bays
This awesome informational publication.
Maryland Coastal Bays Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan
Beach clean ups
Earth Day – April annually
International Coastal Clean Up – September annually
Thermostat Recycling
With the development of Wi-Fi enabled thermostats it is important to remember that the old thermostats, many of which contain mercury, should not go into the trash.
With the Town’s “Trash to Energy Program” it is especially important to remember to recycle the thermostats so they are not incinerated.
Mercury was a prominent element in thermostats manufactured before 2006 and it is now actually illegal to sell them
in Maryland… see code reference below.
010 Maryland Code
ENVIRONMENT
TITLE 6 – TOXIC, CARCINOGENIC, AND FLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES
Subtitle 9 – Mercury
Section 6-905.2 – Sale of thermostat containing mercury prohibited.
6-905.2. Sale of thermostat containing mercury prohibited.
A marketer may not sell or provide a thermostat containing mercury to a consumer.
[2006, ch. 56, § 2.]
Here are two locations where mercury thermostats can be dropped o for recycling:
Shore Distributors, Inc.
8401Coastal Hwy
Ocean City, MD 21842
410-524-1850
and
R.E. MICHEL COMPANY, INC
9617 STEPHEN DECATUR HWY
BERLIN, MD 21811
Please follow this link to learn more about the recycling program.
https://www.thermostat-recycle.org/