Monday, December 26, 2011
Have bags full of sparkling holiday paper? Here are some Earth-friendly ways to reuse or recycle it.
After weeks upon weeks of shopping and countless hours of wrapping presents, there is a mess of bows, tissue and wrapping paper and boxes sprawled throughout the living room. It can be tempting to grab an industrial sized garbage bag to remove all of the signs of happy gift exchanges, but in the spirit of giving, give back to the earth by recycling it. Boxes can often be broken down and saved for future gifts, or can be recycled at the curb with the rest of your cardboard. More plain wrapping papers can be recycled with your mixed paper recyclying. According to Recycle Now, however, the materials that make up most wrapping papers can make it more difficut to recycle. Paper that is dyed, laminated or contains non-paper additives such as …
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Brush pickup is over in zones 1 and 2 until January 2012, zone 3 has until the end of week to get limbs and branches to the curb.
If you're a Little Silver resident living in zone 1 or 2 and you're still putting your brush out to the curb, it might be there for a while. If you're in zone 3, you have until the end of the week to ditch your twigs and sticks. The borough sent a message through Two River Alert on Tuesday advising residents that the Public Works Department is finished picking up limbs and branches in zone 1 and 2, and will resume pickup there in January 2012. Pickup in zone 3 ends Friday. Here's the entire alert, unedited: Little Silver Residents, all brush pickup has been terminated with the exception of zones 3. The Department of Public Works will finish in zone 3 at the end of this week and will no longer pickup brush. They will start picking up leaves…
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The student-organized Green Team meets the second Wednesday of each school month.
Point Road School’s Green Team, an organization that brings together 3rd and 4th graders in the pursuit of giving the school a smaller carbon footprint, convened for their Feb. meeting on Wednesday the 9th. The day’s lesson plan was presented by Susan Murray who is not only a parent of one of the Green Team student members, but a representative of WasteNot Solutions, a Little Silver company committed to the reduction of solid waste expenses for their clients. Murray led a discussion about what a carbon footprint is; the total carbon dioxide amount left behind by an individual or organization. Murray also discussed how carbon dioxide spurs on the Greenhouse Effect in the Earth’s atmosphere, a major contributor to climate change issues. The …
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