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Posted on Monday, May 21, 2018
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Recycling
You didn’t throw that magazine into the trash, did you? You recycle, right? Make sure you do! Recycling is critical to saving our
environment. Yup, we hear it every
day. We see the recycling bins popping
up at our grocery stores, parks, offices, stadiums, etc.… It’s awesome! We pat ourselves on the back every time we
toss our water bottle,...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Landfills, Environment, Solid Waste, Trash, Garbage, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Energy Consumption, Plastic Bottles, Trends, Save Money
Posted on Friday, November 10, 2017
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“I want
that, I want that, I want that,” is the continuous chant heard loudly from tiny
voices and whispered secretly from adult voices during the holiday season as
advertisements bombard us with all our projected wants and needs throughout the
coming weeks. But before we hop into the gift giving and receiving holiday
mode, let’s concentrate on Turkey Day and remember to...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Sustainability, Giving, Environment, Organic, Food scraps, Organic waste, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Kids, Children, Holidays, Thanksgiving
Posted on Monday, October 16, 2017
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Most of us can’t resist indulging in the celebration of
Halloween. It’s the night of the year
where we excitedly combine fright with fun.
However, modern day Halloween has become a nightmare on our health, our
teeth and our environment when you factor in the copious amounts of sugar, the
array of packaging surrounding that candy and the toxic decorations and
costumes...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Sustainability, Community, Landfills, Solid Waste, Organic, Earth, Carbon Footprint, Energy Consumption, Kids, Children, Reuse, Holidays, Lights, Decorations
Posted on Friday, April 21, 2017
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The crowd cheers, players celebrate and both sides of the
little league field grab water bottles to rehydrate after an exhilarating but
exhausting game. And more often than
we’d like to admit, these bottles end up in the trash. What’s the problem with that you wonder? We are raising considerate children who don’t
even think about littering our grounds!...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, School, Sustainability, Environment, Solid Waste, Trash, Composting, Organic, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Plastic Bottles, Kids, Children, Reuse, MRF, Earth Day, Green Schools
Posted on Monday, December 19, 2016
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Recycling
You hear it all the time, “The holidays are the most
wonderful time of the year!” And they
are! The holiday spirit brings out the
best in almost everyone. Kids are doing
their finest Saint Theresa impression to stay off the naughty list and adults
tend to mimic this behavior by showcasing their most generous and kind
selves. The moment Thanksgiving...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Giving, Community, Landfill-Free, Landfills, Environment, Solid Waste, Trash, Garbage, Compost, Composting, Food scraps, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Kids, Children, Christmas, Holidays, Gifts, Trees, Lights, Santa, Decorations, Ribbon, Ewaste, E-Waste, Green Christmas, Save Money
Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2016
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Recycling
The sun is beating down on the mound of a newly constructed
baseball field as the pitcher winds up to throw his fastball to the batter who
has spent hours swinging the bat preparing for this pitch. In the distance, children are running around
a track, pumping their legs on the swings of a playset and climbing rock walls
to reach the top of an 8ft slide. Adults
and children alike...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Giving, Community, Giving Back, Donation, Landfills, Environment, Solid Waste, Trash, Garbage, Compost, Organic, Biosolids, Organic waste, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Energy Consumption, Kids, Children, dumps, recreation, parks, picnic, wildlife, baseball
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2016
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Clearing up the confusion as to what you should place in your residential recycle bin in the 21st Century and how well Americans are doing with recycling todayBelieve it or not, Americans have been researching the
rewards of residential recycling since the early 1970’s. Yep. It’s a fact. Nixon was (still) president, the first Earth Day was observed, the Environmental Protection...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Environment, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet
Posted on Monday, March 28, 2016
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A profound quote from Canadian poet and novelist, Margaret
Atwood expresses, "In the spring, at the end of the day, you
should smell like dirt." Celebrated American author and poet,
Henry David Thoreau – when penning his wonders of spring – eloquently affirmed,
“So
mild the air a pleasure 'twas to breathe, for what seems heaven above was earth
beneath.” For those who...
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Tagged:Green, Environment, Compost, Composting, Organic, Weather, Earth, Planet, Kids, Children, Spring, Yard, Garden, Pruning, Plants
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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Saving energy does not require a lot
of money or time. It simply requires knowledge, commitment, a plan and action.By acknowledging and capturing the energy inefficiencies
that you create or ignore on a daily basis, you can radically reduce your
energy bills, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by power plants,
ultimately reducing your carbon
footprint. While new technologies...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, Sustainability, Environment, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Energy Consumption
Posted on Wednesday, February 3, 2016
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Some fascinating, mystifying, and
amusing facts about the El Niño weather cycle phenomenon and why we should pay
attention“Seems it never rains
in southern California”, pined Albert
Hammond in his 1972 Billboard chart topper. Perhaps coincidentally, 1972
was a La Niña weather-pattern year, the
coin-flip antithesis of the intense El
Niño pattern that we are...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Environment, Compost, Composting, Evironmental Responsibility, Weather, Global Warming, Earth, Planet