Posted in Procter neighborhood, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged environment, glass recycling, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, neighborhood recycling, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Update: Check out the Procter Neighborhood Website for the latest on Procter Recycles.]
Great news, Procter Neighborhood! Bridging the Gap can accept our glass.
Here’s what they require:
Rinse… No dishes of any kind including wine glasses, plates, Pyrex, etc. No flower vases, light bulbs or flat panes of glass. No opaque colored glass.
Pretty simple.
Phase 2: Let’s convince [...]
Posted in Procter neighborhood, cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged karma offset, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
[Update: Check out the Procter Neighborhood Website for the latest on Procter Recycles.]
We got off to a great start! Three neighbors joined me in recycling in our first week, bringing our MPG-per-household up from 20 to 80! Instead of each of us making the five-mile round trip to the 35th St recycling center, we sent four [...]
Posted in Procter neighborhood, cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have not been getting along with the publishing software, so here’s a reposting of the plan until I can get a permanent page published. It was great to meet everyone yesterday! Thanks go to Greg Kline for volunteering to help out!
I’ll start with a confession: I love my pickup. It’s not new, and it was a very [...]
Posted in municipal services, recycling, tagged municipal services, power of the purse, progressive politics, recycling on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the past few weeks I have been pleased to see the expansion of materials accepted by the City of Independence’s recycling center.
When contracting with Deffenbaugh for recycling, the drop-off site was able to accept only PETE and HDPE plastics (resin codes 1 and 2), and they would not take plastic bags. In my house [...]
