How to promote backyard composting
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Promotional and educational programs such as the grass recycling and backyard composting promotional campaign of Montgomery County, Maryland, help promote backyard composting. The Lower East Side Ecology Center, New York, has set up a composting site and a textile recycling program. The center conducts tour of composting and vermiculture bins, and holds workshops on urban composting. City Farmer, British Columbia, uses phones and computer modem to monitor its composting promotional activities. Its Internet site that promotes backyard composting receives good response.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1996
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Military recruits composting and recycling
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Military bases across the US have focused their attention towards waste diversion and the efforts are supported by appropriate legislation. Recycling and composting programs are intiated in the military installations and are postulated to foster practices that reduce waste generation and the recycling of recyclable materials such as paper, plastic, metals, glass, used oil, lead acid batteries and tires and the composting of organic material such as yard waste.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1992
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Integrated processing at future recycling park
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The Los Angeles, CA, area's Bradley Landfill will reach its capacity by 2002, but WMX Technologies will by then have converted the facility into the Sun Valley Recycling Park of Los Angeles. The transformation will cost an estimated $56 million. Recycling operations at the landfill, begun in 1990, accounted for about 45,000 tons of material in 1994. Recycling projects planned for the facility are discussed.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1995
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