by admin on August 10, 2011
by admin on July 14, 2011
The Town of Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, and the Western Tidewater Master Gardeners invite you to attend one of two upcoming rain barrel workshops! Come and learn about water conservation while making your own rain barrel! Choose either July 26, 6 – 8 p.m. at Nike Park, or August 16, 6 – 8 p.m. [...]
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by admin on June 28, 2011
Time.com Ever feel a pang of guilt throwing away glass bottles, plastic containers, and loads of other completely reusable packaging materials? If that’s you, then the zero-waste grocery store in.gredients coming to Austin, Texas will be your new favorite store. Americans throw away 1.4 billion pounds of waste every day, and 40% of it comes [...]
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“Plastic Bag Forgiveness Day,” June 25, Offers Hampton Roads Residents Second Chance to Recycle Bag a cool, reusable shopping tote when you turn in five plastic bags (Hampton Roads, Va., June 2, 2011) Guilty of throwing your plastic shopping bags out with the trash? Relax. HR Green is offering residents a second chance to do [...]
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by admin on April 27, 2011
by admin on April 8, 2011
Isle of Wight County is offering FREE 16 x 26 inch recycle bins to residents. Limit of 1 per Isle of Wight residence (proof of residency required). 500 total available, first come first serve. Interested residents can call Gloria Spratley, Economic Development, at (757) 356-1962, to schedule a time to pickup their bin. For more [...]
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by admin on March 4, 2011
What: Go Green Event sponsored by Phi Chi Omega and Isle Be Green Bring your sensitive documents to be professionally shredded onsite, donate items to Disabled American Veterans Thrift Stores, bring canned food to support the Food Bank, bring household recyclables and plastic bags. While there learn about going green by recycling and water conservation. First 500 people receive [...]
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by admin on January 31, 2011
Editorial courtesy of the Virginian Pilot. 1/31/2011 Disposable plastic shopping bags are likely bound for history’s trash heap, but it appears Virginia lawmakers are going to cling to them until the last possible moment. Last week, a House of Delegates subcommittee killed the last of three bills addressing an aspect of our throwaway culture that [...]
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by admin on January 26, 2011
by admin on January 11, 2011
Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 06:56 AM By Jenny Rogers www.tbd.com After one year, D.C.’s nickel tax on plastic bags appears to have dramatically lowered bag use, reduced trash in the Anacostia, and not ticked people off too much. Now similar legislation is in the pipeline in Virginia, but the debate is different. Farming issues loom [...]
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