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Tips For a Green Halloween @ greenhalloween.org
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Lots of great tips on making your Halloween Green at www.greenhalloween.org/phoenix Below are just a few tips that are offered on the site.
- Use natural/reusable products for your decor and be eeko-friendly!
- Trick-or-treat in reverse - collect change for Hands On Greater Phoenix, their featured nonprofit. www.handsonphoenix.org
For more tips and ideas, please visit www.greenhalloween.org/phoenix
3 Reusable Bag Distribution Events Saturday Oct 4th
Friday, October 3rd, 2008The City of Phoenix will be distributing a limited supply of free reusable cloth bags and recycling information at four different locations in Phoenix.
- Heritage Square Park Rainbow Festival, 115 N. 6th St Phoenix, 9am to 12pm
- Desert Skymall, Community Information and Safety Fair, 7611 W. Thomas Rd Phoenix, 10am to 2pm
- Costco, 4502 E. [...]
Free Cloth Reusable Bag Events in Phoenix
Friday, August 29th, 2008This Saturday, August 30th from 8 am to 12 noon , the City of Phoenix will be at two locations distributing recycling information and a limited supply of free reusable bags.
Food City 9020 W. Thomas Rd, Phoenix
Safeway 4857 E. Greenway Rd, Phoenix
Arizona Tax on Bags Trashed
Monday, August 25th, 2008As reported in The Kingman Daily Miner, a motion to explore imposing a tax on plastic bags distributed by local supermarkets was rescended by the Kingman Clean City Commission.
The decision was made after the Arizona Food Marketing Alliance and managers of local supermarkets presented to the commission updated statistics on the number of plastic bags [...]
City of Tempe Reusable Bag Event Saturday Aug 23rd
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008On Saturday August 23rd from 10 AM to 12 PM the City of Tempe will be distributing a limited supply of free reusable bags at two Safeway locations.
926 E. Broadway Road, Tempe
1515 E. Elliot Road, Tempe
Bashas’ Family Stores Have a New Sustainability Brochure
Monday, August 18th, 2008Since the 1970’s Bashas’ Family Stores have placed intitiatives to reduce their impact on the environment. Click on the link below to take you to the pdf of their new sustainability brochure. (Adobe Acrobat is needed to view the brochure.)
bashas-sustainability-brochure
BYOB bring your own bag to SPROUTS and get 5 cents back
Monday, August 11th, 2008Teaching Humans To Clean Up After Themselves
Monday, August 11th, 2008Maple So, a Yuma High School graduate, has one second place in the Morrison Institute essay-contest as reported in the Arizona Republic.
In her essay, titled “Use of Plastic bags creating nightmare for our environment” So explains the simple lesson of basically teaching humans to clean up after themselves. If everyone is just using up materials [...]
Bank Gives 100,000 Reusable Bags
Friday, August 8th, 2008Gate City Bank is giving out another 100,000 reuseable bags to the public free of charge as reported in IN-FORUM NEWS. The cloth reusable bags are avaliable at all the bank’s 26 branch locations in North Dakota.
Green plan: Easy ways for families to reduce, reuse, recycle
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008By POLLY HIGGINS
Tucson Citizen http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/92747.php
Here are 10 ideas to help your family cut its waste.
1. Educate yourself about recycling.
2. Buy in bulk.
3. Avoid excessive packaging.
4. No more plastic water bottles!
5. Purchase reusable containers.
6. Pack a green lunch.
7. Reuse what you use.
8. Make the switch to reusable shopping bags.
9. Look for low-waste products.
10. Compost.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/92747.php
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