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“When we look at garbage, we don’t see garbage. We see food, paper, metal, glass.” The 70 % diversion rate includes recycling, composting and source reduction (meaning reusing things instead of throwing them out.) The city has 12 recycling streams, or programs, devoted to different materials, including regular garbage, construction debris, furniture and paint. For example, much of the concrete from demolished buildings is recycled in new sidewalks. Unwanted paint is blended it in 55-gallon drums: resulting in 3 colors — off-white, beige and green — are packed in 5 gallon tins and sent to local nonprofit organizations, schools or charitable institutions in Mexico. They can collect scrap paper to re-sell because of low levels of glass contamination. Garbage trucks can compress mixed loads of paper, cans and bottles without breaking the bottles. Compare 2006 diversion rates: Chicago 55%, New York City 30.6%, Milwaukee 24%, Boston 16% and Houston 2.5%.

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POPS Our tips are full of good food. Why the waste?

by tabsey 2-3-2008

I have a second compost bin because the neighbours are putting lots in. The bins take little room, have no smell and provide rich soil when seaweed and a little chook manure are added. You can also get compost bins for flats/units which give the soil for growing herbs etc on a balcony.

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POPS 21 Things You Didn't Know You Can Recycle

by bellapria 1-8-2008

This is a great article. I had no clue you could recycle eyeglasses

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POPS W-O-R-M-S are your friend

by lori_gee 6-7-2007

This morning I was taking the weeds out of my garden grass again (did this yesterday too - it never ends) and came accross an earthworm which made me jump back a foot !! I was doing some research on earthworms to see if they are friend or foe when I came accross this:

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