My Organic Market’s ER

I recently visited the site of our new MOMs store location in East Columbia, set to open this Fall, and I am very excited to tell you about our new skylights. I pulled up to the store and was a little miffed to see that someone had left all of the lights on inside. After a walk inside, however, I was pleased to find that there were no lights on at all. The light was coming from the 40+ skylights that we had installed just the week before, pouring glorious natural light into our aisles! This tube-shaped light captures light on the roof, and then redirects the sunlight through a reflective tube into our store. With these skylights, we’ll be using minimal power for artificial light and using plenty of free, full-spectrum sunlight.

Picture courtesy of Landis Construction

Here at MOMs we believe that the smallest things can make all the difference. In each of our store locations, we have a battery recycling container available to both our employees and our customers. It all started when we began calling around to different trash collectors and toxic waste facilities inquiring into where we could drop off some of our batteries we had accumulated. What we found was shocking, yet, not so surprising. They simply said “just throw them away.” That’s when we decided to team with a company called Battery Solutions, based out of Michigan, that would help us facilitate our battery recycling centers. When our battery containers are full, we ship them off to the company to be stripped for their recyclable components, and then disposed of properly. By doing this, it eliminates waste in landfills, toxins in the environment, and new products are created from the salvaged materials.

Battery recycling is just one example of how My Organic Market is helping to create a positive impact on the environment. So, if you are looking around some of your junk drawers and find those small batteries rolling around or have a container of batteries accumulating in your garage that you never knew what to do with, bring them to MOMs.

Types of batteries that you can take into any of our MOMs locations…

• A, C, D and 9volt
• Cell Phone
• Hearing Aids
• Toys
• Camera

* Please, no car batteries