Escambia County Recycling

Escambia County Recycling Escambia County Recycling Dee Dee Green Recycling Coordinator Neighborhoods/Community Service Bureau Office: 850-937-2160 Cell: 850-554-2280 ddgreen@co.escambia.fl.us www.MYESCAMBIA.com

Leesburg Halloween Parade

What A Blast! If you have never been to the Leesburg Halloween parade.  Next year don’t miss it. Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club supporting Interfaith Relief, anyone can line up and join the parade.  Local businesses, organizations, individuals and of course politicians join forces to satisfy the county sweet tooth and the wild and crazy [...]

What is in the back of that cool green truck?

What do you think it is? It is aluminum It has a roof and a door It started out as beverage cans: now it is a building material: next who knows–maybe an American jet fighter keeping us safe. Did you know: that the energy saved by recycling 1 CAN is enough to power a TV [...]

Loudoun County Recycling

Curbside refuse and recycling collection services are provided by incorporated towns, some homeowners associations, and directly by one of the many private, permitted waste collection companies operating in the county. Residents may arrange with a permitted collector to pick up recyclable materials, or may drop off the recyclables at any of 11 drop-off sites, located [...]

DNC Convention Commitment to Greening America

Waste Diversion Our goal for our resource recovery systems at the Pepsi Center and the Colorado Convention Center is a minimum 85 percent diversion from the landfill.  We will accomplish this through a comprehensive recycling, composting and waste minimization program with the assistance of hundreds of our DNCC Green Team volunteers.  Organic materials collected through [...]

“Green” is the new school color in Escambia County

Escambia County and local groups unite to promote student recycling Adam Ziglar • aziglar@pnj.com • August 14, 2008 The Escambia County School District is working with the Leadership Pensacola Class of 2008 on its “Live Green Escambia” class project, which is placing about 3,300 recycling bins in 54 schools throughout the district. Schools that participate [...]

Project Runway – Design “Green”

Grass Is Always Greener The designers are forced to think green in the second episode of Project Runway — with the help of their trusted model. Guest Judge: Natalie Portman Aired July 23, 9-10 PM ET/PT Michael Kors’ Blog So, the eco-challenge. Guest Judge Natalie Portman is a good style icon. I think the interesting [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio says “Sign The 11th Hour Pledge” – No Plastic Bags

Sign the 11th hour Pledge and make a difference by cutting plastic bags out of your life BYOB – in other words Bring Your Own Bag with you the grocery store, farmers market, and retail stores. Not only will you be reducing the amount of plastic you are consuming but you will be showing fellow shoppers, and [...]

Go Green – Live Rich by David Bach

How many of you are sick and tired of JUNK MAIL? I sure am, plus look at what David Bach tells us in his book “Go Green – Live Rich”. “The average adult is on at least 50 mailing lists, resulting in about 40 pounds of mail sent each year” So what do must of [...]

Time to Recycle the Cans and Store The CAN House!

Thanks to all the folks who brought us their cans. Also, many of you came by and talked with us about the solar water system provided by Compass Solar Energy and our Compostable Picnic Packs.   Help us construct The CAN House again.  We are looking for sponsors to bring The CAN House to an [...]