Key West hears plan for Zero Waste. Eric Lombardi, executive director of Boulder, Co.,-based Eco Cycle, speaks to city officials and outlines some simple steps to create a zero waste community:
- "The public really wants convenient recycling and composting opportunities. Once you create the systems where it's really easy to do the right thing, they do the right thing."
- Make the polluter pay more than the conserver by introducing a pay-as-you-go structure to waste-collection service charges.
- Mandatory recycling at all homes and businesses.
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| Application deadline has passed as of Januaury 10th of 2010 for Small Business Advantaged Grant Program. This program assists small businesses with regulatory compliance, provides information about cost saving pollution prevention practices, and ensures that small business are considered when new regulations are developed. Keep this program in mind for next year.updated 2/02/10 |
Dave Mazza, regional director of Pennsylvania Resources Council is interviewed by Allegheny Front’s Matthew Craig regarding Zero Waste Pittsburgh’s accomplishments and services.
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| The City of Pittsburgh moves towards stricter recycling rules.This bill included legislation that would tighten recycling rules, demanding, for instance, recycling containers on all floors of municipal, institutional and commercial establishments. It also would set a new scale of punishments for not recycling. Residents would get a warning for a first violation, followed by fines of as much as $50, $100 and $500 for subsequent failures to recycle -- a modest easing of the current fine scale. updated 10/27/09 |
| Zero Waste is on the move around the country. “Though born of idealism, the zero-waste philosophy is now propelled by sobering realities, like the growing difficulty of securing permits for new landfills and an awareness that organic decay in landfills releases methane that helps warm the earth’s atmosphere.” updated 10/20/09 |
| Great Race Announces 2009 schedule and highlights 2008 waste reduction accomplishments. updated 7/23/09 |
| Atlanta Launches Southeast's 1st Zero Waste Zone. Downtown Zero Waste Zone is an opportunity to divert a tremendous amount of recoverable products from landfills and gives a marketing edge for future convention business for the city of Atlanta. updated 2/10/09 |
| Pittsburgh’s “The Great Race” goes Green by recycling 9000 water bottles and diverting 900 pounds of food waste to a commercial composting facility. updated 9/27/09 |
