A fellow green teamer has been living in Seattle, Washington for the last six months and from time to time has emailed me information, ideas and pictures on the green scene going on out there. He sent me these pictures as an example of the bins and wording of stickers on Seattle Public Park trash and recycling bins. He writes "I like the fact that the trash bins have a sticker saying that all contents goes to a landfill." As some of you know we've been trying to get funding for recycling bins in our city parks. At our last quarterly update meeting with the Mayor, we asked her for the money and she assures us it will happen in 2010, at least a pilot program beginning with 8-10 recycling bins being placed in and around Cahoon Park. Just in case people can't tell what goes where... stickers should clear that up!
Monday, November 23, 2009
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A fellow green teamer has been living in Seattle, Washington for the last six months and from time to time has emailed me information, ideas and pictures on the green scene going on out there. He sent me these pictures as an example of the bins and wording of stickers on Seattle Public Park trash and recycling bins. He writes "I like the fact that the trash bins have a sticker saying that all contents goes to a landfill." As some of you know we've been trying to get funding for recycling bins in our city parks. At our last quarterly update meeting with the Mayor, we asked her for the money and she assures us it will happen in 2010, at least a pilot program beginning with 8-10 recycling bins being placed in and around Cahoon Park. Just in case people can't tell what goes where... stickers should clear that up!
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The amount of commercial and residential recycling on the west coast surely has one-uped our communities here in Ohio. The cities are making money off the recycling commodities and meanwhile avoiding the ever increasing tipping-fees at the landfill. For EcoLakewood, we tried to take the city's broken receptables and re-vitalize them with art. Ask your major for the broken containers, have artists fix them up (good ole Bondo) and then the city can contribute to more recycling. They can even be unique outside business owners' stores or bus stops. At this rate, it is best to build the culture and work on the behavior change, or else it will continue to be too expensive to transfer/dump everything to county landfills that are already filling up and then have taxes increase for the community.
ReplyDeleteGood idea to ask for broken containers, (bondo's cheaper), surely there must be a couple of those around (and not already in landfill). Would like to work w/BAYarts on the artists part - stronger in numbers and goes further in spreading awareness - thanks GoSustaino!
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