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Lawmakers Consider Washington, D.C., San Francisco Bans
POSTED: 10:06 pm EST February 22, 2010
UPDATED: 9:56 am EST February 23, 2010
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A push to eliminate paper and plastic bags at grocery stores is gaining momentum.A new law in Washington, D.C., requires shoppers to pay 5 cents for each bag and plastic bags have been banned [...]
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The green solution to surpass the nation’s strictest building code as it relates to hurricane and wind testing.
MIAMI, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Recycle Tech, Inc., trading under the symbol (OTC Bulletin Board: RCYT), is pleased to announce that a new green container solution created for universal emergency shelters shall supersede and pass all hurricane uplift [...]
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By Justin Fritscher • jfritscher@jackson.gannett.com • February 23, 2010
Nell Scoggin said recycling comes naturally. The Pearl resident said she hates to waste.
“I’m conservative and I hated to throw away things, particularly things that can be reused,” she said.
But for Scoggin and other Rankin County residents: recycling is hard work. She has to drive her recyclables [...]
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Last Thursday, February 18, the Isle Be Green Plastic Bag Recycling Program, in partnership with Farm Fresh Supermarket in Smithfield, held a bag exchange day. From 9 a.m. until noon and again from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m., shoppers were encouraged to exhange 10 plastic bags for 1 reusable bag.
The event was a success. 500 [...]
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by Joe Flanagan, 13News
Posted on February 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Updated Tuesday, Feb 9 at 5:31 PM
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NORFOLK — Two bills to cut down the number of plastic grocery bags being used in Virginia likely won’t pass this session.
House Bill 1115 would force retailers to charge five cents per plastic grocery bag, but it’s been tabled. It wouldn’t apply to [...]
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Come out to Farm Fresh in Smithfield tomorrow, Thursday, February 18, from 9 a.m. to noon or 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. to participate in our Bag Exchange!
Bring 10 plastic bags and receive 1 beautiful Isle Be Green reusable bag in exchange (limit one per person).
For more information visit the events page.
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EDITORIAL: Plastic bags linger as Richmond dithers
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT, NORFOLK, VA. | Tue, Feb 16, 1:00 PM
Feb. 16–Virginia lawmakers are skilled at passing resolutions honoring good ideas. But they’re not so adept at emulating them.
A year ago, the General Assembly heaped well-deserved praise on Farm Fresh for the grocery chain’s efforts to reduce the number of [...]
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By SEAN KINNEY
skinney@keynoter.com
Posted – Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:44 AM EST
You said it, Kermit — it’s not easy being green. Just ask the folks in Key West.
The 25,000 or so residents of the island can’t crack a 10 percent residential recycling rate. Yet on Jan. 26, residents packed the City Commission chambers and applauded the [...]
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RecycleMania Kicks Off Another Season of Green Team Pride
STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — RecycleMania springs back into action as college campuses compete to see who can reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste. For a 10-week period, beginning in mid-January and running parallel to the college basketball season, colleges and universities take [...]
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BCISD undertaking lunchroom recycling program
Updated: Monday, 01 Feb 2010, 8:11 PM EST
Published : Monday, 01 Feb 2010, 1:46 PM EST
By: Jacqueline Ingles
Burnet Consolidated Independent School District’s food service department is implementing a new recycling program in their school cafeterias that includes recycling food scraps.
It’s a program often overlooked by many Burnet Middle Schoolers who are [...]
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