Posts filed under ‘Recycling & Conservation’
Phone Book Recycling to Support Schools
Cash prizes awarded to the top five schools that receive most phone books.
The graphic lists the locations and times for Phone Book recycling.
Here’s a list of schools that signed up for the contest.
Please be sure to let the staff at the recycling center know which school you would like to have credited.
Emmanuel Lutheran School
Haiku Elementary School
Hana School
Kula Elementary School
Maui High
Montessori School of Maui
Pomaika’i Elementary School
Pukalani Elementary School
Community Budget Meetings to Discuss Future of Maui Recycling Centers
The following meetings will be held across Maui county to hear the Mayor’s proposals and to gather public opinion about the future of the county recycling program.
Kihei
Monday, April 1, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Kihei Community Center
Makawao-Haiku-Paia District
Thursday, April 4, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Paia Community Center
Hana, East Maui District
Monday, April 8, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Helene Social Hall
Pukalani-Kula-Ulupalakua Upcountry District
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Mayor Hannibal Tavares Comm. Center, Social Hall
Lahaina, West Maui District
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Lahaina Civic Center
Wailuku-Waihee-Waikapu and Kahului Districts
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
6:30 p.m. Budget Meeting
Lihikai Elementary School
335 South Papa Ave.
Kahului
Molokai District
Monday, April 15, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Mitchell Pauole Center
Lanai District
Friday, April 12, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Lanai Senior Center
19-Year-Old Student Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the Worlds Oceans
The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of the platforms, where it would be separated from plankton, filtered and stored for recycling.
“we estimate that by selling the plastic retrieved from the 5 gyres, we would make in fact more money than the plan would cost to execute. In other words; it’s profitable.”
How to Reverse Climate Change by Greening the Worlds deserts
In this March 3, 2013 TED talk, Allan Savory proposes that most global climate change is due, much more than from use of fossil fuels, to grasslands becoming deserts in over half of the land mass of the world. But, he also shows how, contrary to our preconceptioins, grazing animals can, and are actually restore the deserts back to grasslands.
100% Wood-free Paper Made from Wheat Straw
Step Forward Paper is created using 80 per cent waste wheat straw and 20 per cent wood fibres. It’s currently available in more than 330 Staples stores across Canada and was found to have the least amount of environmental impact among North American copy papers, including 100% recycled paper. Woody Harrelson is a major backer of Prairie Pulp and Paper Inc., North America's First Non-Wood Paper Mill.
Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s annual ranking of US and Global companies and politicians by how green, or not green, they are.Smart, Solar-Powered Kiosks for Recycling and Composting Send Text When Theyre Full
Last year, the University of Washington realized it had a big waste problem. A sampling of the garbage at the campus’s Red Square found that 61 percent was actually compostable. To make sure the compostable waste wasn’t going out with the garbage, the university decided to seek a high-tech solution in the form of smart, solar-powered kiosks that collect garbage, compost and recyclables and communicate wirelessly when they need to be emptied.
South Maui Sustainability 