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KVUE News Austin, June 24, 2010 By Sarah LuceroIs Texas next state to ban plastic grocery bags?Video: There are more and more proposals being drawn up at the local and state level to eliminate or place a tax on the bags. Most are produced using oil, and, by some estimates, 90 percent end up dumped in a landfill or clogging up streams. | |
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Austin American-Statesman, June 9, 2010 By Shea, Schneider, Porter and McAfeeOp-Ed: Austin recycling too important to rush decisionAustin considers itself an environmental leader, yet it cannot seem to get recycling right. The City Council is now considering the selection of a partner for its long-term recycling operations after a flawed process. | |
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Austin American-Statesman, June 9, 2010 By Sarah CoppolaAustin recycling contract still up in the airThe Austin City Council is scheduled to choose one of three firms today to build and run an Austin recycling plant so the city can stop shipping recyclables to San Antonio. But the city's multiyear quest to figure out what to do with recyclables might have hit another snag. | |
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Associated Press, June 2, 2010 By Samantha YoungCalif. Moves To Ban Plastic Bags At Grocery StoresThe California Assembly on Wednesday passed legislation prohibiting pharmacies and grocery, liquor and convenience stores from giving out plastic bags. | |
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WFAA-TV Dallas/Ft. Worth, April 26, 2010 ByStubborn fire burns at Dallas landfillVideo: A fire that broke out at the McCommas Bluff landfill in East Oak Cliff early Sunday evening was still burning Monday morning. | |
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Austin American Statesman, April 23, 2010 By Sarah CoppolaCity of Austin could expand recyclingSmall apartment complexes, offices would no longer have an exemption | |
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Waste & Recycling News, April 20, 2010 By Jim JohnsonGreens, not gasAlmost a dozen environmental groups — including San Francisco’s environmental department — wants to refocus a national program aimed at capturing and using methane from landfills. | |
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The Story of Stuff Project, March 23, 2010 By Annie Leonard
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Dallas Morning News, March 8, 2010 By Tasha HaytonDallas-Fort Worth post offices slowly offering recycling binsRecycling can save companies money, especially large entities like the postal service that deal with tons of paper, said Jeffrey Jacoby, program director with the Texas Campaign for the Environment. | |
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KVUE News Austin, February 7, 2010 By Steve Alberts
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KVUE News Austin, December 16, 2009 By Steve AlbertsAustin losing millions of dollars to haul away recyclablesVideo: Since the city doesn't have a recycling facility in town to handle unsorted recyclables, it contracted with an out-of-town company called Greenstar. The city expected to make money, but instead, it has lost more than $2 million. | |
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Southern Shift, December 8, 2009 ByCopenhagen in Texas: An Interview w/ Environmentalist Robin SchneiderVideo: While we focus on the Copenhagen climate talks, we at The Southern Shift wanted to bring attention to environmental and global issues closer to home. This week we will kick things off with a two-part interview with Robin Schneider, who heads up Texas Campaign for the Environment. | |
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Austin American-Statesman, November 29, 2009 By Sarah CoppolaAustin considers extending problematic recycling contractThe City of Austin is looking to improve the terms of a much-maligned recycling contract that it expected to profit from, but that instead has cost $2 million over the past year. | |
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Dallas Advocate, October 2, 2009 By Marlena Chavira-Medford, Christina Hughes Babb & Keri MitchellTrash to TreasureBy and large, Dallas receives a passing mark in terms of its strides toward protecting the environment, says Jeff Jacoby, Dallas staff director for the Texas Campaign for the Environment, a grassroots advocacy group. | |
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Austin America-Statesman, April 7, 2009 By Sarah CoppolaAustin losing money on recycling contractWhile city has lost about $900,000, San Antonio and Dallas have profited. A local environmental group that has analyzed public records blames the loss on a contract with the recycling company Greenstar that the City Council approved in May. |
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Calgary Herald, January 25, 2009 By Reese HalterMore plastic than plankton in Pacific OceanA mass of plastic in the Pacific, increasing tenfold each decade since 1945, is now the size of Texas and killing everything in its wake. Globally, 100 million tonnes of plastic are generated each year and at least 10 per cent of that is finding its way into the sea. | |
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KXAN News Austin, January 23, 2009 By Matt FlenerNeighbors fighting landfill expansionVideo: Hearings continued Friday on a battle to expand a Northeast Travis County Landfill. Neighbors and landfill operators argued in front of an administrative law judge Friday. Click here to watch! | |
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News 8 Austin, January 21, 2009 By News 8 StaffProposed landfill expansion sparks controversyBFI Waste Systems went before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Tuesday to find out once and for all whether it can expand its landfill in northeast Travis County. | |
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CBS 42 News Austin, January 20, 2009 By Alexis PattersonTravis County residents fight landfill expansionImagine having 250 acres of garbage as your next door neighbor - and now the landfill company wants to expand. That's got some folks in Northeast Travis County upset - but the proposed expansion is now being considered by a judge. | |
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San Antonio Express-News, December 27, 2008 By Colin McDonaldSan Antonio moves slow on recyclingHanging off the back of a garbage truck, Hector Villanueva and Juan Aguirre scramble down block after block to collect San Antonio’s trash. Villanueva didn’t think about recycling until he started hoisting trash cans filled with cardboard, plastic bottles and newspapers that could have been recycled. | |
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In Fact Daily, December 10, 2008 By Mark RichardsonCity Attorney excludes community’s choice for outside counsel on BFIA resolution on today’s Council agenda to direct City Manager Marc Ott to hire an outside legal firm to assist in “un-doing” an agreement between the city and landfill operator BFI could spark some spirited discussion. | |
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Austin American Statesman, July 10, 2008 By Melissa MixonHutto group now backs landfill sale; Williamson commissioners say they're interested but are also looking to negotiate new contract with operator.Orlynn Evans remembers the unease among some residents a year and a half ago when Williamson County commissioners discussed selling the county's controversial landfill. | |
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KUT Radio, June 30, 2008 By Erika AguilarMore Trash in HuttoHutto residents aren’t against expansion—they want to make sure the landfill doesn’t get too big and trash from outside the county goes elsewhere. |
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New York Times, June 25, 2008 By Stephanie RosenbloomHome Depot Offers Recycling for Compact Fluorescent BulbsThe nation's second-largest retailer is creating widespread recycling program for the bulbs, accepting them at all U.S. locations. |
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KVUE News, June 23, 2008 By Jessica VessHutto residents take a stand against landfill expansionHutto residents and city council members are taking a stand against a proposed landfill expansion. Operators at the Williamson County landfill are looking at a plan that would allow trash from outside the county to be dumped there anyway. | |
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Austin Chronicle, June 6, 2008 By Lee NicholsThe Webberville ConundrumAustin's plans for an eastern landfill hit a little obstacle – the people who live there. | |
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Weatherford Democrat, June 5, 2008 By Carman WilliamsChanges may be in store for landfillsLandfills never stir up sanitary images, but if proposed new standards are approved by the state, municipal dumps may be getting too dirty for some groups to handle. | |
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Austin American-Statesman, June 2, 2008 By Melissa MixonJudge says controversial landfill contract is validA 2003 contract between Williamson County and its landfill operator, Waste Management of Texas, is valid, according to a district judge’s ruling released late Friday. | |
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Houston Chronicle, August 10, 2003 By Dina CappielloPoor funding, cheap landfills hurt effortsAsk Marta Medina what she does for a living, and she replies in Spanish "reciclar," or recycle. The 50-year-old Guatemalan immigrant has made a success of recycling, something that Houston, the fourth largest city in the nation, has struggled to do. | |
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