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Austin Recycles—Independent of China

March 24, 2019April 1, 2019TaylorRecycling, Zero Waste

The following information was shared with City of Austin Zero Waste Block Leaders in the February/March 2019 newsletter. This is long so bear with me. It’s an official response from Austin Resource Recovery/The City of Austin to citizen concerns. China’s program to stop importing recyclables, “Operation Green Fence,” was formally implemented beginning in 2013 because…

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Maybe Put a Lid On It?

March 22, 2019April 6, 2019TaylorMetals, Plastics, Recycling, Trash

The most popular post I ever made on social media as a Zero Waste Block Leader was a clarification on lids. At one of the recent neighborhood association meetings, the big question of the day for me was if canning lids could go in the recycling. Well, as you can image we had quite the…

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a little more green begins

March 19, 2019March 24, 2019TaylorAbout

I’ve been interested becoming a greener person since my third grade teacher taught us about recycling, litter, saving water, etc. The first two activities I remember doing were an audit of our recycling bin, and making a soda bottle weight to take up toilet tank space to reduce water usage. In 2014 I became a…

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