{"id":16310,"date":"2013-09-21T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2013-09-21T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T18:49:51","slug":"signs-now-of-clarksville-becomes-clarksville-montgomery-county-green-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/09\/21\/signs-now-of-clarksville-becomes-clarksville-montgomery-county-green-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs Now of Clarksville becomes Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certified"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Clarksville-MontgomeryMontgomery County, TN<\/strong> \u2013 Signs Now of Clarksville, celebrated their Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certification with a Green Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Thursday, September 19th.<\/p>\n

Owner Dick Pryor and his team have worked hard to reduce their environmental impact. Pryor took a few minutes to elaborate on some of the things they are doing.<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/a>

Green Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Signs Now of Clarksville<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re saving all of the metal and taking it to the scrap yard, and all of our copper and aluminum are recycled. We have a large 80 gallon for used oil. Rather than disposing of it, we take it to a repair shop up the street where it is reused for heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shut things down at night and adjust the thermostats after hours to save energy and have talked with the employees about doing the same thing at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot long before becoming involved with the green certification program, we had a large solvent ink printer that produced a strong odor. I sold it and purchased two energy efficient, low emission wide format printers, one is HP Latex and one is an OCE ink. Any ink we don\u2019t use goes into an overflow and we send it back to HP. Nothing goes to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy employees even bring their personal used ink cartridges in and I take those to Office Depot and get a credit. Everywhere we can we\u2019re trying to save from taking it to the dump,\u201d explained Pryor.<\/p>\n

In addition, Signs Now recycles paper and cardboard and the large cardboard rolls that come with vinyl wrapped around them are given to The Teacher\u2019s Warehouse for projects.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County Mayor Carolyn Bowers was on hand to congratulate Signs Now for their efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you\u2019ve told us is what we\u2019ve heard from a lot of people \u2013 that your efforts to become green really created some revenue and it\u2019s saved money,\u201d said Mayor Bowers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good part of this is it spreads. By you deciding you want your company to go through this process, your employees have picked up on it and it will spread through their families hopefully and the next generation will be more trained in being environmentally friendly. Congratulations Dick, I\u2019m really proud of you and Signs Now,\u201d said Bowers<\/p>\n

Signs Now offers indoor and outdoor signage, everything from signs and banners to digital signage and tradeshow displays and a variety of other items that help businesses stand out. To find out more about Signs Now in Clarksville visit http:\/\/www.signsnowclarksville.com\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

If your business has an interest in learning more about the Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certification Program email Michelle Newell at manewell@mcgtn.net<\/a> or call 931.245.1867.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montgomery County, TN \u2013 Signs Now of Clarksville, celebrated their Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certification with a Green Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Thursday, September 19th. Owner Dick Pryor and his team have worked hard to reduce their environmental impact. Pryor took a few minutes to elaborate on some of the things they are doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,1749,6301,20690,20691,13565,5919,160,10067,4431,9216,20689],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4f4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16311,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}