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Keep Genesee County Beautiful
Phone: 810.767.9696
(Note: This affiliate serves Genesee County only. For information about forming a KAB affiliate, please contact April Buther Wennerstrom, Director, Affiliate Services, at 203.323.8987, ext. 820.)
Keep Prince George’s County Beautiful
Phone: 301.883.5843
Litter Hotline- 301.952.5326
Bright & Beautiful
Phone: 406.248.6617
In 2007, Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Management processed the following:
1,154,784 tons of waste.
457,842 tons were put into the landfill.
190,764 tons went to The Salt Lake Valley Transfer Station to a remote regional landfill.
683,716 tons were recycled.
The landfill has 550 acres and is the largest Class 1 municipal solid waste disposal facility in Utah.
The Salt [...]
Did You Know?
The Georgia Department of Transportation picks up more thantwo million bags of trash along our interstates each year. If you laid those bags end-to-end, they would stretch more than 1,000 miles!
Each Georgia resident disposes of approximately 6.3 pounds of trash each day. In one year that adds up to more than 2,300 pounds. That’s as much as [...]
I did this blog on what litter cost- and then found this from the City of Baltimore Website.
This is what litter cost the taxpayers and if you litter, don’t complain about your taxes, crime and lack of civic amenities!
The Cost of Litter
Litter is not only ugly, it’s expensive. The Bureau of Solid Waste spends more [...]
12 Ways That You Can Prevent Litter
There are many ways that you can help make your community cleaner. Here are 10 suggestions:
1. Set an example by not littering.
2. Pick up one piece of litter every day.
3. Every week, pick up all the litter in front of your house, including the street
4. Ask your neighbors to [...]
This is a great little video from Pocono Green (80505016) about the sheer amount of plastic bags in our world today. The pictures alone are compelling reasons to ban plastic bags. Pictures of seals with plastic bag necklaces, turtles eating plastic bags, plastic bags hanging on swimming dolphins, birds wearing plastic bag hats, - it is sad, [...]
Life Span of Litter
Aluminum Can 200-500 years
Batteries - 100 years
Cardboard Box- 4 weeks
Cigarette Butt up to 10 years
Cotton Rag- 1-5 months
Disposable Diapers- 500-600 years years
Glass Bottle 1Million years
Leather- up to 50 years
Lumber- 10-15 years
Monofilament Fishing Line- 800 years
Milk Cartons (plastic coated) 5 years
Nylon Fabric- 30-40 years
Orange Peel- 2-5 weeks
Paper-2-5 months
Plastic Film Container- 20-30 years
Painted Wooden [...]
Today was trash day. I am always shocked at how little people recycle. It’s pretty standard what you can recycle, glass, cardboard, paper, water bottles. What surprises me is why people don’t recycle as much as possible.
These people obviously don’t know how to achieve Zero waste
What we have here, is metal poles, that can be [...]
