Laurence Gibson,
El Paso Group Chair
All right, El Paso Sierrans…
We asked for it. We begged for it. And we waited and waited and waited for it!
Glass recycling for El Paso is finally HERE.
Yes, it is only a pilot program. And there is no curbside collection…yet. But it is HERE.
El Paso’s Environmental Services Department is now collecting glass at all five Citizen Collection Stations for processing into pulverized glass at the Pendale Road Station. All we have to do is take our clean glass containers to a Citizen Collection Station, separate by color, and we’re done. If you want free mulch from glass, you may pick that up at 1034 Pendale Road. This is a hot ...
Some claim that the official El Paso flag is the plastic grocery bag. When the wind blows, it adorns ocotillos and hangs in trees. Several years ago an effort to ban the bags did not make it past a City Council committee. The excuse was that too many El Pasoans can’t afford the bags.
Now the Sierra Club El Paso Group plans to hand out 500 large reuseable shopping bags to shoppers primarily in lower-income areas. The group hopes the idea will catch on with other organizations that want to promote use of reuseable bags.
Any group that wants to participate can get in touch with El Paso Group Vice Chair Jim Tolbert at 915-525-7364 or diegotolbert@gmail.com.
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Did you know that El Paso residents (No commercial business / contractors) can take trash, household hazardous waste, and bulky items to one of four public drop-off locations, known as Citizen Collection Stations, within the city. Trash is collected at the Citizen Collection Stations and then taken to the Greater El Paso Landfill for disposal. The Citizen Collection Stations also function as additional drop-off sites for recyclables, to complement the city’s curbside recycling program.
Not everything that you may want to throw away or recycle can be placed in your trash or blue recycle bins. For example cooking oil, motor oil and other toxic liquids can be taken to Citizen Collection Stations. You can also drop off electronics, ...
If you have read comments in the Los Alamos Monitor, Los Alamos Daily Post, or savethebaglosalamos.blogspot.com, you have seen that well-meaning people are either uninformed, misinformed, or have been activated by the American Chemical Association (ACA) to fight a ban on the single-use disposable plastic shopping bag. An interesting assertion from the save-the-baggers is that bags aren’t a problem locally or globally, and there are no bags blowing around Los Alamos.
In order to help inform the savethebaggers, we have the opportunity to offer some data. All we need to do is take a photo of whatever feral bag we find, caption it (location is good), then upload it to Instagram by using:
tag@banthebagLosAlamos or #banthebagLosAlamos. Enlist your friends, and ...
