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In the City of San Diego, the Miramar Landfill, the city's one and only operating landfill, is good for more than just dumping off your trash! The landfill runs all sorts of programs, including a greenery recycling program where you can recycle your yard waste throughout the year. Here's what you need to know about the recycling program and how you can get involved.
What Gets Recycled?
In many San Diego neighborhoods, you can take part in a curbside greenery recycling program, where you can have the city...
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Wondering about what happens to waste in your own backyard? In San Diego, much of the city's waste goes to the Miramar Landfill just off of Highway 52 at Convoy Street. According to the city of San Diego, the landfill takes in about 910,000 tons of waste each year. That's a lot of waste since the opening of the landfill in 1959!
The Miramar Landfill covers, in total, about 1,500 acres, but only the West Landfill is open right now. When you think of a landfill of this size, you might be thinking of just piles and...
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Living in California, you can be proud of being a part of the state with some of the nation's highest recycling statistics. There are plenty of reasons for this. California makes recycling more easily accessible to residents, with more curbside recycling pickup programs per area than almost any other state. The state also encourages recycling through several laws that make it tough to just dump otherwise-recyclable items into landfills around the state.
While Californians are by no means perfect recyclers, recycling is...
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Did you know that you can actually make money when you recycle your basic household items in San Diego? You won’t make a mint, but you can get a bit of extra spending cash by taking certain recycling items with a redemption value down to the Miramar Recycling Center, the city's main municipal recycling center. Here's how you can make money through recycling in your city:
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PHOTO BY: Mikhail Zahranichny
When you first start a recycling program in your home or workplace, you may not think about how recycling saves money. In fact, it might seem like recycling costs money! After all, you may need to pay for recycling containers, not to mention items to educate your employees when...
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Every year, San Diego recognizes local businesses and organizations that successfully reduce waste and help make the city a little greener. As a consumer, you can help reward these local businesses for their efforts by choosing to patronize them! Even if you don't make that choice, it can be interesting to look at some of the businesses whom the city awarded for their recycling and waste reduction efforts. Here are some of the awards made for 2011:
Recycling Partner Award: This year, the award...
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Have you ever heard of a landfill with its own plant nursery? In San Diego's only working landfill – the Miramar Landfill – that's exactly what you'll find. In an effort to make the landfill as environmentally friendly as possible, and as part of the city's contract with the Marine Corps, who owns the 1,400 acre plot the landfill is placed on, the Miramar Landfill features an on-site nursery.
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According to Sign On San Diego, Solana Beach could soon be the first city in San Diego County to outlaw plastic bags.
The move came as a result of a recent California Supreme Court ruling, which allows smaller communities to prohibit the use of most plastic bags without conducting a costly environmental impact report. Larger cities like San Diego would have to complete the impact...
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Historically, California cities have had some of the best green initiatives in the country, and it's no different for San Diego. Most San Diego residents can already take advantage of great recycling pick-up and drop-off programs that collect everything from newspapers to phone books to plastic bottles to glass. Homeowners can just fill up their blue recycling tubs, put them on the curb on the designated day, and have their recycling picked up for them.
Recently, though, San Diego has been working on...
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These days, there are hardly any countries in the world that aren't struggling with waste management problems in some form or another. In first world countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, the problem of consumer-generated waste is ever growing, driven by an economy that encourages throw-away products and "requires" upgraded electronics every two or three years, at least. However, what many consumers in the first world are unaware of is how their waste affects third world countries.
In third world...
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In San Diego, it's easy to be green. If you need a nudge in the right direction, head to Hotel Solamar on October 19 for a green entrepreneur showcase that will give attendees a close look into the thriving green scene right here in San Diego.
The event will include an eco-friendly fashion show, live entertainment, sustainable food and drink, as well as...
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Learning about the ways that human waste can affect our world is one of the best methods for understanding and helping to prevent waste problems. One huge problem our environment is currently facing due to human waste and littering is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
What is it?
Contrary to what the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" conjures up, there isn't actually an obvious floating landfill in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Instead, the garbage patch is more...
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One local San Diego-based company is making greeting cards greener. Grow-a-Note cards from the Greenfield Paper Company are made with an array of wildflower seeds embedded into the paper (which is hand-made from 100% reycled ingredients, with no chemicals, dyes, or additives). When you're ready to turn the...
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These days, our culture is more and more fact-driven. We like to make our personal, ethical, and business choices based on the latest information, which is right at our fingertips with the help of technology. Sometimes, just knowing the true facts about how our actions and choices are affecting our community or the environment is enough to push us to do something about it. Well, now it's time to start learning the facts about e-waste so...
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If you’re looking to make your next getaway a green one, look no further than your own backyard. San Diego is home to three of the top eco-friendly resorts in the country:
The picturesque L'Auberge Resort in Del Mar is going easy on the planet at their restaurant and spa. At KITCHEN...
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