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Recycling Has Really Caught on Here in Shadyside
written 14 May 2008 over dinner
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Three Simple Things to Make You Greener
Just a few easy lifestyle modifications to help you jump on the green bandwagon. Soon enough you’ll be pulling the thing yourself!
- Paper or Plastic? Cloth. Take your own cloth bags to the grocery store. Americans alone use around 65 billion plastic bags every year. Whole Foods recently quit providing the option of plastic, likely because people were choosing it just so they could recycle with the bags.
Added Bonus! Now you can pick up a few large blue tubs and keep your recycling in those. It’s better for the environment and a lot easier to toss your recyclables into the tubs than to try and squeeze them into the bags.
Pittsburgh Expands its Recycling Program
The City of Pittsburgh has expanded its recycling program for the Central and Eastern Neighborhoods (pretty much everyone in the city, between the Allegheny & Monongahela) tremendously. Now, you can put out just about everything, including:
