Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Seattle recycling plan

  • Seattle is considering picking up garbage only every less than 30 percent to 53 percent of the waste stream. The citys ZeroWaste plan has a 60 percent recycling target for 2015 and 70 percent by 2022.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • are mulling a plan that would change Seattles garbage collection schedule from the current once-a-week plan to once every other week. Proponents of the plan say it will save money, boost recycling and get trucks off the road, but not everyone is sold.
  • (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
  • including recycling food waste which is provided to a local company that reprocesses the waste into mulch; we then buy it back for use in our indoor garden atrium and on the grounds", said Heitzenrader.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport The airport's environmental strategy plan is SEA's road map to sustainability, he adds, and the airport has set a goal to reach a 50% recycling rate by 2014.
  • (ForConstructionPros.com)
  • As a warm-up to the companys first appearance at the annual Seattle Green Home Tour on Earth Day weekend metalwork, an exterior recycling shed and all the interior bells and whistles will cost about $155,000.
  • (Peninsula Daily News)
  • The company made products using 14,000 pounds of collected inner tubes last year, and plans in Seattle, backcountry.com in Heber City, Utah, and Big Wing, a distributor in Japan, sell Green Guru products.
  • (Boulder County Business Report)
  • Although not considered hubs, Los Angeles, Washington Reagan, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, New York LaGuardia, St. Louis, Boston, Chicago OHare, Raleigh-Durham, and Seattle have large over the next 3 years.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • Seattle was Lindsays first experience of the Pacific Northwest One of the signals came from her landlord, who objected to her putting a recycling bin outside her apartment. "We dont recycle here," he told her.
  • (Peninsula Daily News)

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