Cape Coral residents urged to recycle cardboard

I am now, and always will be, a proud bag lady when I shop — COLUMN
So there I am, standing at the supermarket checkout counter facing the same clerk I face every Friday morning, week after week, month after month. She clicks efficiently through the cartful of groceries, letting them pile up at the far end.[...]

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The U-Haul Company of North Texas Expands U-Haul Self-Storage Operations With the Purchase of Royal Storage Facility
The U-Haul Company of North Texas today announced that it has expanded the U-Haul network of self-storage locations with its purchase of an existing Texas storage facility located at 26778 U.S.

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Everything in its place
Gloria Volz, owner of Adirondack Organized Solutions, shares organizational philosophies and strategies in the new year.

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County recycles Christmas trees, and much more
PANAMA CITY BEACH – Bay County officials have been asking residents to drop off their old Christmas trees at any of four recycling centers. As of Friday, 130 trees had been left at the recycling centers. But these centers can recycle much more…

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Cape Coral residents urged to recycle cardboard
Now is a good time to recycle cardboard and boost the city’s return on its recycling efforts, Cape Coral Councilman Kevin McGrail said today.

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TAYLOR: Mayor wants to hear from residents if city is ‘headed in the right direction’ (with video)

Dirty tricks failed to stop the angry resistance
THE platypuses that swim in the Williams River have been given a reprieve by the axing of Tillegra Dam but the state government and other land-holders in the valley have years of uncertainty ahead of them.

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Solid-waste subscription forms due Dec. 1
Solid-waste subscription forms have been mailed and those who wish to change their subscription levels for 2011 are reminded to return the form with their selections by Dec. 1.

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Around Town — Local firefighters attend workshop for oilfield emergencies
Several area firefighters attended a two-day Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program’s Responding to Oilfield Emergencies Training Workshop.

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Local News
BY JACOB JONES The Daily World An Ocean Shores couple has denied burglary and drug charges that they recently stole electronics, jewelry and tools from at least four homes in the Ocean Shores area. Carleen C. Kell, 25, pleaded not guilty to four counts of residential burglary Monday after an off-…

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TAYLOR: Mayor wants to hear from residents if city is ‘headed in the right direction’ (with video)
TAYLOR — About 130 people filed into the William D. Ford Senior Center for a Town Hall meeting Tuesday.

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Camden Property Trust Selects Whirlpool Corporation as Exclusive Appliance Provider to Help Residents and Employees …

Consumers poorer but wiser
NEW YORK — Layaway, once the province of the poor, has gone mainstream. At the Mall of America in Minnesota, shoppers dart in for just one or two things. In New York, socialites do the unthinkable: They wear the same ball gown twice.

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Franklin Recycling Center open Sundays
In addition to its normal operating hours, the Beaver Street Recycling Center will be open several Sundays this month for yard-waste drop-off only.

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Drop off your recyclables and help Evelyn Mount Community Outreach
This is a great week to drop off those recyclables, help feed the needy in our community, and help the environment — all at the same time.

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Drop off your recyclables and help Evelyn Mount Community Outreach
This is a great week to drop off those recyclables, help feed the needy in our community, and help the environment — all at the same time.

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Camden Property Trust Selects Whirlpool Corporation as Exclusive Appliance Provider to Help Residents and Employees …
Whirlpool Corporation is now the exclusive appliance provider for Camden Property Trust to further the real estate company’s “Live Green” initiative. Under the agreement, Whirlpool Corporation will provide sustainable Whirlpool brand kitchen and laundry appliances to Camden’s new and existing multifamily communities throughout the United States.

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Green Meadows Townhouses Residents Fed Up with Living Conditions

Boy Scout Helps School With His Eagle Scout Leadership Project
Nick Lipham isn’t your typical 17 year old boy. The Hazel Green teen is a member of Boy Scout Troop 100 and is aiming to become an Eagle Scout. For his ‘Eagle Scout Leadership Project’ he has chosen to build six garbage can containers to help out Mill Creek Elementary School in Madison, he says the effort will help save the school five thousand dollars.

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Looking past North Texas? Easy to do…..
OK, the job for FAU coaches this week is to keep the Owls from looking past North Texas. That is not going to be easy, given the current status of the Kind and Gentles (0-3), who were bad to begin with but have been decimated by injuries reducing them to godawful. They lost to Army 24-0 yesterday, and lost some key players as the injuries continue to mount. Where to begin – well, we’ll start …

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Friends: Missing sect leader devout, not fanatic
Friends of the woman described as the leader of a break-off religious sect that has been reported missing say Reyna Marisol Chicas was devout but hardly fanatic in her beliefs.

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Bowling Green passing game will have familiar look
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The characters are different, but the plot is the same. A year ago, Bowling Green visited Edwards Stadium and chucked the ball around the field like it was a backyard football game and consecutive completions earned a first down. A…

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Green Meadows Townhouses Residents Fed Up with Living Conditions
Residents at the Green Meadows Townhouses have been dealing with what they call neglectful management for months. Problems with mold, air conditioning, and water keep stacking up, and are leaving tenants frustrated and tired. Tenants at the Green Meadows Townhouses say living there is a nightmare. “The living conditions are horrible. It looks good on the outside, but horrible on the inside …

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Highlands Ranch residents speak out against proposed landfill

Reading, Exeter Township awarded recycling grants
The City of Reading and Exeter Township have been awarded recycling performance grants by the state Department of Environmental Protection totaling $316,967, Sen. Michael A. O’Pake (D-11) announced on July 13.

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Stimulus Money To Help Green Up St. Louis County
8.4 Million Dollars For Better Traffic Signals, Efficient Buildings And Recycling Sick of getting stuck at stoplights? In St. Louis county there could be more greens on your commute because of a green initiative in the county.

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Single-stream recycling is overdue, but arriving
Single-stream recycling — based on the idea that if people can throw all their recyclables together, they’ll recycle more — has moved beyond being tested. It works.

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Stimulus Money To Help Green Up St. Louis County
8.4 Million Dollars For Better Traffic Signals, Efficient Buildings And Recycling Sick of getting stuck at stoplights? In St. Louis county there could be more greens on your commute because of a green initiative in the county.

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Highlands Ranch residents speak out against proposed landfill
The Highlands Ranch Community Association is opposing a proposed landfill and recycling center near Sedalia because it would be adjacent to the association’s 7,500-acre Backcountry Wilderness Area.

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Most area residents ‘greener’

Think green before driving
Keeping your car properly tuned, your tire pressures checked, and turning down the air conditioning are some of the ways to make your driving more efficient and cut your fuel consumption, according to the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc. (CAMPI).

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CORRECTING and REPLACING SolarReserve Gets Green Light on Nevada Solar Thermal Project
SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release reads: SOLARRESERVE GETS GREEN LIGHT ON NEVADA SOLAR THERMAL PROJECT SolarReserve’s 100 megawatt power contract with NV Energy will utilize innovative energy storage technology developed and manufactured in the United States SolarReserve, a …

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PTT launched campaign on the use of bioplastic bag at Samed Island in establishing a sustainable “Green Island …
PTT Public Company Limited, represented by Mr. Prajya Phinyawat, Chief Operating Officer, Downstream Petroleum Business Group, in cooperation with the National Innovation Agency (NIA), the Department

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Hugh Muir’s diary
The planet is in big trouble. But so are those trying to save it It’s no secret that green types have a beef with Saudi Arabia, and with g• ood reason. All those cars, all that air conditioning and not a little crude oil. And thus no surprise that, sighting officials from the kingdom at a United Nations climate meeting in Bonn last month, activists would want to show their displeasure. But come …

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Most area residents ‘greener’
Tribune/WGN poll: 77 percent said they made changes to their daily routines to be more ‘environmentally conscious’ A Tribune/WGN poll shows three-quarters of residents across the city and suburbs have taken steps in the past five years to become more green.

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Rising water forces Hendricks County residents to evacuate

Something Green on Cyprus St.
Great weather to be outside and plant a garden!

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One smokin’ prize
Dylan Owens (middle) hasn’t been around for all of Woody’s Bar-B-Q’s 30 years, but he’s now part of its history. To celebrate the company’s anniversary, owners Woody Mills (left) and Yolanda Mills-Mawman held a “living green” contest for children to create a a pig from recycled materials.

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5 arrested in late-night brawl outside Colbert
A fight broke out in Country Living Mobile Home Park just outside Colbert in the early predawn hours of June 14. Five men were arrested.

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Keeping up with the Jones’s
With close knit family ties and modern, innovative ideas, this year’s Sebastian County Farm Family of the Year was well chosen in the Jones family. Cody Jones, his wife Angela, and their daughter Hallie have been living the farm life for six years.

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Rising water forces Hendricks County residents to evacuate
Heavy rains forced hundreds of Plainfield residents living in the Crystal Bay Subdivison to evacuate. UPDATE: Heavy rains forced hundreds of Plainfield residents living in the Crystal Bay Subdivison to evacuate.

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County residents tune in to recycling their old televisions, other electronics

BPF calls Defra’s recycling target ‘unrealistic’
In its response to Defra’s packaging consultation, the British Plastics Federation (BPF) strongly disagrees with the 56.9% 2020 plastics packaging recycling target and the proposal to split plastics recycling by polymer type.

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Changing of the guard at recycling center
Arthur Von Nagel, right, is taking over as manager of the Petaluma Recycling Center on June 15, following the retirement of Davide Donati, left.

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Felida couple get resourceful about recycling
Patty Page holds the rewards of her avid recycling efforts in one hand. A popcorn tub.

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Recycling Center paying off for township this year
West Milford’s recycling program is due to bring in more than $110,000 in grant money dedicated exclusively for recycling

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County residents tune in to recycling their old televisions, other electronics
HANOVER TOWNSHIP—When was the last time you saw someone throw away a working television? If you were at the Hanover Area Junior/Senior High School during the day Saturday, you probably would have seen several being recycled.

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Fillmore residents give new water plant high marks

Tadweer initiates an environmental studies program in association with the University of California Davis
Tadweer, the Middle East’s leading waste management and recycling company, has announced its efforts towards initiating the first-ever college level Environmental Studies Program in the Middle East.

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Reservation will receive ‘recycled’ school supplies
The North Platte Telegraph Students in the North Platte Catholic Schools are completing one last recycling project before the semester ends on Friday. They are cleaning out their desks and, instead of discarding their unused school supplies, they are sending them to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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PISD program ended due to contamination
After an effort to get students and volunteers more involved, Plano ISD is having to end its organic recycling program with the city.

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Body found at Prince William recycling center
MANASSAS—Prince William County police say a body has been found at a recycling depot near Manassas. Sgt. Kim Chinn says the body of a man was found at the Canusa Hershman Recycling Center near Interstate 66 last night. Police say the man has not been identified and they don’t know if he died at the plant or if the body was taken to the plant. The case is being investigating as a suspicious death.

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Fillmore residents give new water plant high marks
Fillmore’s new water recycling plant received positive reviews from city residents who toured the six-acre complex at its grand opening Saturday.

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