May is Clean Air Month and something Balanced Body takes seriously. For our woodshop, we have a state-of-the-art dust collector that was installed in 2014. It can hold 40 cubic yards of dust and is emptied every 5-6 weeks. It has dramatically improved the air quality of our facility and decreased the volume of particulate.
Plus, the captured dust is taken to a local business that composts it and then sells the compost to local landscapers and garden enthusiasts. And it is powered by a 40-horsepower motor that gets its electricity from our 2,128 solar panels on our roof!
Watch below as our CEO, Ken Endelman, shares how the collector works and how much of an environmental asset it has become.
