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One-sort recycling comes to East Calhoun

By Sarah Sponheim, Uptown Neighborhood News

East Calhoun’s new one-sort recycling pilot program shows solid success: 30% more households are recycling and the neighborhood is recycling 35% more stuff.MORE »

Primed for solutions

By Judy Peacock, Standish-Ericsson Neighborhood Association

Standish resident Karen Baumgaertner believes that her neighbors have “a natural affinity toward waste reduction and sustainability solutions.” That’s why she agreed to help the Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) with a pilot program to test the costs and benefits of recycling child car seats.MORE »

One-sort recycling coming to East Calhoun

By Sarah Sponheim, Uptown Neighborhood News

The East Calhoun neighborhood will participate in a pilot project to study the cost-effectiveness of one-sort recycling. Beginning later this summer, eligible households (single-family to four-plexes) will be able to mix all recyclables in one large cart (similar in size to our current garbage carts) instead of sorting them into paper bags. This project, a collaboration between HennMORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | YOUR comments needed by 9:00 am, December 8th

By Alan Muller, Free Speech Zone

A chance to weigh in on expansion of the HERC garbage incineratorAnd garbage incineration vs recycling generally....

Comments needed by email before 9:00 am Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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Making dirt makes sense

By Phyllis Stenerson, Uptown Neighborhood News

Food not used or eaten at three innovative Uptown restaurants isn’t dumped into a landfill anymore.MORE »

Curbside composting derailed in St. Paul

By Lisa Peterson-de la Cueva, TC Daily Planet

Susan Crumb grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota where her family burned, composted, or buried all their waste. She’s still highly conscious of her trash, where it came from, and where it’s going. This is why she was interested to hear about the possibility of curbside composting in St. Paul.
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