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St. Pete groups ready to lobby officials for improved curbside recycling program listen
04/16/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recycling, St. Pete, League of Women Voters, environment, sustainability, Sierra Club, St. Pete Chamber of Commerce
The city of St. Petersburg doesn’t offer free curbside recycling to residents; some community-based groups are pulling together to change that. The League of Women Voters of St. Petersburg has hired a consultant to look into the feasibility of universal curbside recycling in the city. The group’s president, Karen Coale, announced the results during a press conference in front of City Hall Tuesday morning.
Be the first to comment“Curbside recycling is the norm throughout all of the other 49 populated cities i...
Recycling & rare fruit
04/15/13 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gardening, fruit, recycling
We started today’s show with Phil Hughes, Account Manager for Creative Recycling. They recycle all kinds of electronic equipment and small appliances—excluding large white goods such as refrigerators and stoves. The WMNF Radio Station, located at 1210 E Martin Luther King Blvd., is temporarily a drop-off point for Creative to pick up your used electronic devices. This ends April 22, Earth Day.
We spent the rest of the hour with Paul Zamoda with the [Tampa...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete group wants city to offer free curbside recycling listen
03/25/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recycling, St. Pete, League of Women Voters, environment, sustainability, Studio@620
St. Petersburg residents have to pay $45 a year if they want their recyclables picked up curbside. The League of Women Voters of St. Petersburg wants to change that. Karen Coale, the chapter’s president, will kick off an effort called the People’s Trash Monday night at Studio@620 in downtown.
Be the first to comment"It is a new campaign for this year that's kicking off tonight. The League of Women Voter's is probably most known for our voter registration and voter education but we also look at issues; natio...
Recycling in the Tampa Bay area
09/17/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recycling
Our first guest on today’s Sustainable Living program, Bob West, heads up the recycle program at Dart Container Corporation located in Plant City. It’s one of the few places in the Tampa Bay area that recycles Styrofoam and they process it at their facility in Plant City on Airport Road. Dart’s also involved with educating others to recycle through community outreach events and Bob is available to speak at your event or school.
Our next guest is one of the...
Be the first to commentHillsborough County is one step closer to new trash pick-up service listen
09/14/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough County Commission, trash, solid waste, waste management, recycling
Hillsborough County is one step closer to revamping its longstanding trash hauling monopoly. At a workshop yesterday, County Commissioners voted to move forward with a competitive bidding process that will force the existing companies to compete with others from other states for county contracts. After more than 8-months of conversation, Commissioner Mark Sharpe said the next step needed to be taken immediately.
Be the first to comment“Any delay would potentially put at risk all of this work. Any delay for a...
Hillsborough County Commission trash talk is just talk for now listen
10/13/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Mark Sharpe, Al Higginbotham, Ken Hagen, Les Miller, Hillsborough County Commission, recycling, trash
Wednesday Hillsborough County Commissioners set out to decide how to breathe some new life into the county’s business of taking out the trash. But the board couldn’t agree on how to proceed.
They went back and forth for three hours. Mitch Kessler, the county’s solid-waste consultant, recommended the board open the 3-company near-monopoly to competitive bidding. But co...
Be the first to commentPinellas County begins recycling program for beaches listen
07/13/11 Olivia KabatWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: beaches, recycling, Pinellas County
A new Gulf Beaches Recycling Program is providing Pinellas beachgoers the opportunity to recycle. It will make recycling at the beach easy and convenient.
If you visit any of the Gulf beaches or Pinellas County beach parks you may see new blue plastic recycling containers. Pinellas County’s Solid Waste Program Supervisor, Bill Embry hopes to provide the community with an easy way to recycle all their plastic and aluminum containers.
Be the first to comment"The ultimate goal is to have every community that ha...
Israeli action In Gaza; how to recycle old electronics
12/30/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestinian, Gaza, Israel, rockets, collective punishment, civilian targets, recycling
Good afternoon,
Welcome to WMNF ‘s Radioactivity program. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up: we’ll have a debate over the Israeli bombing of Gaza. And we’ll talk about ways to safely dispose of your used electronic items such as computers and televisions. But first, a listener comment about Israel’s attack on Gaza, which began this past weekend.
First up today: with the conversion to digital television and the Christmas holiday, many people are getting rid of old televisions and computers. Thes...
Be the first to commentNewton reacts to mayor’s flip-flop on curbside recycling listen
09/25/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recycling, St. Petersburg City Council, Rick Baker, Pinellas County, Wengay Newton
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker has reversed his long-held position and will now support a Pinellas County proposal to bring curbside recycling to his city. The county’s program will not cost residents because it will be funded by a surplus in revenues generated by solid waste collection.
Before today’s Suncoast Tiger Bay Club meeting in St. Petersburg, WMNF’s Seán Kinane spoke today with City Council member Wengay Newton, to get his reaction to Baker’s change of heart.
“I think it’s a...
Be the first to commentWill St. Pete join with county for curbside recycling? listen
09/17/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Recycling, St. Petersburg City Council, Rick Baker, Pinellas County
Pinellas decided last week to move ahead with a plan to offer curbside recycling for all county residents by next year. Despite opposition from the mayor, several St. Petersburg City Council members are trying to get the county’s largest city on board.
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker has long opposed curbside recycling citing environmental and financial costs. On Monday, St. Petersburg City Council member Karl Nurse wrote a letter to officials from the city and Pinellas County suggesting...
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