Date: October 4, 2008 | Contributor: mhobbs
Per Press Release:
Wake County will conduct a Household Hazardous Waste Pilot Program in October and November to collect residential household hazardous waste each Saturday at its two current locations. Citizens and local governments have requested increased collection of Household Hazardous Waste by the County. The purpose of the pilot program is to evaluate the potential for expanding Household Hazardous Waste collection.
Residential household hazardous waste will be collected from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the North Wake Household Hazardous Waste Facility located at 9037 Deponie Drive, Raleigh, and at the South Wake Multi-Material Recycling Facility at 6130 Old Smithfield Road, Apex.
Acceptable items include; paint, motor oil, cooking oil, batteries, household cleaners, pesticides, herbicides, solvents, mercury thermometers, acids, bases, automobile fluids, florescent light bulbs, poisons, thinners, wood preservatives, lacquers, polishes, antifreeze, kerosene and fuel oil.Household Hazardous Waste Pilot Program to Begin Saturday
Wake County will conduct a Household Hazardous Waste Pilot Program in October and November to collect residential household hazardous waste each Saturday at its two current locations. Citizens and local governments have requested increased collection of Household Hazardous Waste by the County. The purpose of the pilot program is to evaluate the potential for expanding Household Hazardous Waste collection.
Residential household hazardous waste will be collected from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the North Wake Household Hazardous Waste Facility located at 9037 Deponie Drive, Raleigh, and at the South Wake Multi-Material Recycling Facility at 6130 Old Smithfield Road, Apex.
Acceptable items include; paint, motor oil, cooking oil, batteries, household cleaners, pesticides, herbicides, solvents, mercury thermometers, acids, bases, automobile fluids, florescent light bulbs, poisons, thinners, wood preservatives, lacquers, polishes, antifreeze, kerosene and fuel oil.
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Date: October 3, 2008 | Contributor: dcarag
Wake County
Citizens are invited to learn landscaping tips to prepare their yards for the winter and next spring at Wake County’s Fall Landscaping Workshop on Monday, October 6, 2008, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Cardinal Shelter at Crowder District Park, 4709 Ten-Ten Road, Apex.
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Date: October 1, 2008 | Contributor: dcarag
SAS Institute, Inc.
By the end of 2010, visitors to the Cary, NC headquarters of SAS, the leader in business intelligence and analytics, will stand in a building constructed to green principles, overlooking a solar farm feeding sustainably sourced energy to the public grid powering the very building in which they stand.
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Date: October 1, 2008 | Contributor: dcarag
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — The home furnishings retailer Ikea says it will no longer offer disposable shopping bags at its North American stores.
In March 2007, the company said it would charge 5 cents per bag to discourage the use of disposable bags, with the proceeds going to an environmental charity. The company with U.S. headquarters in the Philadelphia suburb of Conshohocken says that cut bag use by 92 percent.
Starting Wednesday, Ikea won’t offer any disposable plastic or paper shopping bags. Sturdy, reusable shopping bags will still be available for 59 cents.
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Date: October 1, 2008 | Contributor: NBC17
According to the Triangle Business Journal, Progress Energy Carolinas and NC GreenPower intorduced a new program Wednesday that will help utility customers reduce their carbon footprints.
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Date: September 30, 2008 | Contributor: NBC17
RALEIGH, N.C. – Dozens of volunteers will gather to stencil water protection messages and brightly colored fish on storm drains located throughout the N.C. State Fairgrounds on Saturday, Oct. 4. The event is being organized by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Quality, in partnership with the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Stormwater runoff is the number one cause of water pollution in North Carolina and the nation. The stenciled images provide a strong visual reminder that everything that flows into storm drains also flows into our creeks, streams, rivers and ocean.
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Date: September 30, 2008 | Contributor: NBC17
GARNER, N.C. - A new Garner park will set an example for the community by “going green.”
Officials broke ground Tuesday on what will become White Deer Park.
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Date: September 30, 2008 | Contributor: NBC17
Girl power has gone green. A new fashion and lifestyle magazine, Boho, has launched, featuring articles on fashion, beauty, home and lifestyle as well as stories about strong green women.
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Date: September 29, 2008 | Contributor: NBC17
As part of its Aging Initiative, EPA is seeking grant proposals that train older adults to be environmental leaders, and demonstrate how greenways and sustainable streets can improve the quality of life and environmental quality for the active aging. The solicitation opened Sept. 24 and closes Nov. 21.
States or state agencies, the District of Columbia, territories, American Indian Tribes (federally recognized), and possessions of the United States are eligible to apply. It is also open to public and private universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other public or private nonprofit institutions and 501 (c)(3) organizations.
EPA will award two grants totaling $200,000 in the winter of 2009.
Get more information about the grants.
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Date: September 29, 2008 | Contributor: speterson
So, yeah, the folks at Larry’s Beans have a new bio bag. So how does it work?
Click here to find out.
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