Even more ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, Oct. 26

North Carolinians recycle 85.4 pounds of materials a second. That's impressive! But we throw away more than 752 pounds of trash a second - almost nine times what we recycle.


Join Sustainable Sandhills to learn even more ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle!!

Sustainable Sandhills, Cumberland County

Community Action Team Meeting  Tuesday, October 26th, 2010  6:30-8:00PM
Pate Room, Headquarters Library

Join Sustainable Sandhills for our October Cumberland County Community Action Team Meeting and participate and a mini-workshop about waste reduction. Through interactive activities and discussion, we'll share tips for reducing our waste stream and making better consumer choices. We'll also learn just how much material has been recycled and how much landfill space has been saved through the City of Fayetteville's Curbside Recycling Program!!! Sustainable Sandhills is a nonprofit dedicated to conserving the natural resources of the eight county region surrounding Fort Bragg, NC. Through education, demonstration, and collaboration, we are changing the ways we live, work, and play. Even the smallest effort makes a difference; visit www.sustainablesandhills.org to learn more.

Tonight, Apr 2 at Raven's Wing, 7:00

No Impact Man: The Documentary
(2009) NR
A Fifth Avenue family goes very green when writer Colin Beavan leads his wife, Michelle Conlin, and their baby daughter on a yearlong crusade to make no net impact on the environment in this engaging documentary. Among their activities: eating only locally grown organic food, generating no trash except for compost and using no carbon-fueled transportation.
Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Raven's Wing, 325 N Page St. Sou. Pines

Robbins, Sept. 12, Recycled Art and Regatta

Recycled Regatta & Recycled Art Contest
Robbins, NC, Sept. 12

If you haven't heard, it's a race where participants build boats and race them over a short course on Bear Creek. Kids of all ages will assemble boats from normally discarded materials, and compete by them paddling or using sail power. The Recycled Art contest challenges anyone to create on, or using recycled materials.

Organizers hope to pull people together, jump start their creativity, raise awareness about recycling, and have fun along the way.

Not sure how to build a recycled boat? Google recycled boats, or cardboard boats. You'll find videos, photos, and the basic science of buoyancy. Or look for ideas on the Town website below.

Don't have time to build a boat? Sign up for the Build-It-On-Site kit!

Recycled Regatta and Recycled Art Contest pdf

See you on September 12th!

Randall Moore
Director of Marketing
Town of Robbins
910 948 4040 Shop
917 699 8232 Cell
www.TownOfRobbins.com

Swank Has Grounds

Downtown Southern Pines, the little coffee house in the Belvedere Plaza - Swank - is giving away their coffee grounds for people's compost bins.

Milk and Cow Poop

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/06/cow-pots.html

Inn at Bryant House Going Green

http://www.innatbryanthouse.com/our-part-in-the-green-movement/our-part-in-the-green-movement/our-part-in-the-green-movement.html

Living Sustainably in the City

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/Sustainable-City-Living-Guide.aspx

Carbon-free Home, Durham

http://www.thedurhamnews.com/front/story/196727.html

Plastic in the Doldrums

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/02-3

Recycle, May 2, Sou. Pines

Mixed Paper Recycling Drive - Keep Moore County Beautiful, Inc. is sponsoring a Mixed Paper Recycling Drive 9:00am - 3:00pm, at the Kangaroo Station in the Fresh Market Shopping Center, Southern Pines. Acceptable items include anything that is paper: Paper grocery bags, flattened boxes, telephone books, junk mail, magazines, catalogs, flattened corrugated cardboard, office paper, and newspapers. Household Batteries and Inkjet Cartridges and Cell Phones included. Contact Joan Neal, Executive Director, Keep Moore County Beautiful, Inc. at 947-3478

Compost Happens

http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/index.php?p=1945

Recycle, Trade for Credit

https://sears.trade4credit.com/index.aspx

Recycle, July 12, Sou. Pines

Mixed paper--shredded office, junk mail, phone books, greeting cards, gift-wrap, newspapers, mags, shiny ads, cardboard, cereal boxes, batteries

Saturday, July 12
9:00 - 3:00
Gas station at Fresh Market
sponsors: Keep Moore Co. Beautiful and League of Women Voters of MC

Mark Our Calendars

Moore County Mixed Paper Recycle dates: May 3, July 12
Shredded paper,junk mail, phone books, Christmas cards, gift-wrap, newspapers, mags, shiny ads, cardboard, cereal boxes, AND batteries.

9--3:00, Gas Station near The Fresh Market
sponsors: Keep Moore County Beautiful, League of Women Voters of MC

Moore Co. Recycle Dates

Mar. 8
May 3
July 12
Gas station at Fresh Mkt
9:00-3:00
office paper, cardboard, newspaper, magazines, batteries
sponsors: Keep Moore Co Beautiful, League of Women Voters of MC

Eco-Fashion on the Runway

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080104/ap_on_bi_ge/farm_scene

Recycling Conference, March '08, Raleigh

http://www.cra-recycle.org/

Getting Smarter in Fayetteville

[from Sustainable Sandhills]

Last night the Fayetteville City Council approved a motion to implement a residential curbside recycling program on July 1, 2008. The program will be operated as an enterprise fund, and be funded by a fee to city residents that will not exceed $39/year/household. That motion passed unanimously, 9-0!

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=264463

The early target for the program is annual recovery of 6,000-7,000 tons of this increasingly valuable (and job-generating) resource.

Volunteer to Recyle at Women's Golf Tourney, Sou. Pines, NC

Keep Moore County Beautiful and League of Women Voters present

Big Recycling News!

For the first time ever, there will be recycling at the Women’s US Open – thanks to David Benne of Pinehurst Championship Management, and Betse Hamilton of the US Golf Association.

The Open runs from Monday, June 25 through Sunday July 1, at Pine Needles.
If you want to support recycling J or to see the golf, you can sign up to be a recycling volunteer –working 3 hours and receiving a full day’s pass to the golf for that day.

Help!! There are 88 slots to fill!

Sign up only if you feel sure that you can make the date- as we will not have a huge group to fall back on for substituting. Schedules will be determined by June 10. We will try to accommodate your requests.

Each person will be overseeing up to 6 recycle bins – removing anything put in other than plastic bottles and retrieving plastic bottles when practical from rubbish cans. If anything other than plastic bottles gets into the recycle bins—the whole container goes to the rubbish and to the landfill.

The job is to make sure that it goes to recycling.

It requires being on your feet for three hours. There are no uniforms.

There is no heavy lifting. Volunteers will wear a recycle sign to promote recycling and to help the public look for our containers. Remember, this is a first time, and we are not sure of what to expect.

By special arrangement with David White, Assistant Town Manager, Southern Pines will pick up all of the filled bags of recycle.

The three hour shifts are: A) 9-noon; B) noon to 3:00 p.m.; or C) 3:00-6:0 0 p.m.

Information about parking, ID, getting passes, etc. will be provided when assignments are made. Please email, call, or talk with one of the core community contacts listed below.

We are hoping to make this a real community effort of individuals and organizations.
Tell your friends, pass this along, and let us hear from you.

Contacts: Pat / Jon Bolles - 673-397
Yes, I will help RECYCLE David Klauder - 295-3191
At the US Women’s Open KMCB, Joan Neal - 947-3478
At Pine Needles LWV, Dot Greenwood -215-0443
Mon. June 25- Sun. July 1 dottom@pinehurst.net

Speaking of Throwaways

[from a well-travelled blog reader]

"Did you know that in Ireland one of the plastic grocery bags that we treat like confetti costs 25 cents Euro? At current exchange rates that is around 32 cents U.S."