That's right. Twice in one month Waste Management, Seattle's municipal garbage collection company, the largest garbage company in North America with over 25 million customers nation wide, has rolled out two new green agendas for the Seattle area. One, we have been waiting for this for some time now, home composting bins, and the later natural gas powered garbage trucks. Here is an article on the new garbage trucks that you, Seattleites, will be seeing cruising the streets: http://gas2.org/2009/02/11/waste-management-builds-fleet-of-natural-gas-garbage-trucks/.
For those of you unfamiliar with Waste Management, here is a link to there website. This company offers a wide range of disposal services for everything from toxic wastes, contaminated soils, compost, recyclables, etc. They have an environmental agenda set up and are in most cases, in the Seattle area, the best most economical way to have waste disposed of. Here is a link to there web page for further information: http://www.wm.com/index.asp.
Garbage is an unfortunately large part of our consumer lifestyle. It is an almost inevitable by-product of modern day life. Its good to know that those who deal with the fat of the land in the Seattle area are making an effort to show stewardship toward the environment.
Garbage is an unfortunately large part of our consumer lifestyle. It is an almost inevitable by-product of modern day life. Its good to know that those who deal with the fat of the land in the Seattle area are making an effort to show stewardship toward the environment.
We can now compost our meat and dairy products as well. I think they also did away with having to separate glass from the rest of your recycling.
ReplyDeleteI believe the recycling change in just around the corner. But being as though they are already in charge of recycling i didnt feel the need to highlight this subtly.
ReplyDeleteI just heard that Everett has the largest composting facility in the world
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