Following is a letter from City of Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Richard Mendoza encouraging residents to sign up or its Recycling Perks incentivized recycling program. It’s easy to sign up and you can save up to $25 per month or $300 per year in discounts. For more information on recycling, visit http://www.atlantaga.gov/index.aspx?page=493. To sign up for the…
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Reduce, reuse, recycle. Those concepts are what the three sides of the chasing arrows logo found on every recyclable item represent. The logo informs the consumer that the item is recyclable where allowed. Recycling is just a portion of the larger effort that goes into saving our natural resources. The big picture approach includes a…
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On March 27, 2015, Atlanta City Councilmember Kwanza Hall, along with local Atlanta artist Pam Longobardi, and a group of international attendees, convened at the Centers for Disease Control and officially proclaimed this date as Plastic Reduction Day Atlanta. In recognition of this date, a group of Atlanta-area researchers and artists have created a pledge…
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by Peggy Berg Recycling is a good idea, but it’s in a tough spot right now. Oddly, recycling is one of the things that is negatively affected by the low price of oil. Local glass companies are rejecting glass materials from the City’s recycling stream (our blue bins) because recycling glass is not currently profitable.…
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Passing along the following from John Wolfinger regarding what’s appropriate – and what’s not – to place in your blue recycling bin: The City of Atlanta is having problems with our recycling program, in that far too many city residents are placing items in the large blue recycling bins that are not intended to be…
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