Category: Garbage & Landfills

Landfill-intercept art

Despite the fact that it was a long weekend and Whitehorse was pretty much a ghost town, the garage sale was a success, and very little had to go to the landfill. A few hundred pounds of paper (mostly photography magazines ) went to Raven Recycling, there’s a small...
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Whitehorse Freecycle

The Whitehorse Freecycle Network is a Yahoo Group that is open to all who want to “recycle” that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it’s a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you’re looking to acquire something...
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Garage sale weekend

Garage sales can be fun – both going to them and having them. I’ve already got too much “stuff” so haven’t been to one in a long time now (a long time as in years), but it’s time to do “the final sort” to get things cleaned up and...
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Talking dirty

To get the garbage out of New York City each day takes 450 tractor-trailer rigs which use a total of about 33,700 gallons of diesel fuel on their round trip to Pennsylvania. For every barrel of waste we put on the curb, there are 71 barrels of waste generated...
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