(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Discarded wood chips, grass clippings and cooking oil could bring money to DeKalb County and a new source of renewable energy to Georgia. DeKalb gave the first approval Thursday for Green Energy Partners LLC to move forward with building a $50 million biomass plant in Lithonia. The company said its proposal calls […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Thousands of blue recycling carts — with a pricetag of nearly $1 million — are stashed away in a Far South Side warehouse because City Hall bought them to make the citywide switch to curbside recycling, but ran out of money one-third of the way through. The Daley administration acknowledged having […]
From shopping to wine to parties, there are fun ways to go green
(WSJ) — Standing in a corner of McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Breck Baldwin and Mark Harder launch their strange, remote-controlled aircraft that look like flying Stingrays. As the planes glide like miniature stealth bombers high above joggers, dog-walkers and softball players, some people stop and pull out head phones, leave kickball games and hold […]
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Derreck Kayonga noticed something strange during a hotel stay in Philadelphia several years ago. His hotel room contained three bars of soap. On top of that, after just one use, the hotel’s housekeeping staff replaced the used bar with a new one. He started hiding the soap in his luggage, but […]
(NYT) — When a constituent came into Assemblyman Michael DenDekker’s office recently and suggested he propose a cigarette butt recycling program, Mr. DenDekker admits he “had a little chuckle.” Then a staffer, half joking, suggested a cigarette butt deposit, just as is done with bottles. But before completely dismissing the idea, Mr. DenDekker agreed “to see […]
(NYT) — They brought their hand-me-downs in paper bags and shopping carts, in backpacks and even the bottom rack of a wheelchair, dropping them off in hampers at a greenmarket stand on their way to the jams and fresh vegetables. The success of the recent weekend clothing collection at the Grand Army Plaza greenmarket in […]
(Washington Examiner) — Governments across the Washington region spend millions of dollars on recycling each year, but national recycling experts say a lot of that taxpayer cash is going to waste. Maryland, Virginia and the District require residents and businesses to recycle, and localities pay millions of dollars to enforce those laws and hit recycling […]