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Last week of the Recycling Challenge

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It’s crunch time for ten neighborhoods competing in the Think Green Recycling Challenge.
The contest ends with waste collection on Friday, March 30, your last chance to get the heavy stuff into your recycling and food waste carts and go skimpy (but of course) on garbage.

Remember, Wallingford and our neighbors to the north could win $50,000 to spend on a community project if we continue to recycle more tonnage than other Waste Management customers, compared to last year.

Want to help? Do you have room in your yard waste cart? Reply in Comments below if you can help rake up heavy leaves in our sidewalks and streets or will accept them in your yard waste, or both, by Friday the 30th. Every extra effort helps us keep the edge and first place in the contest, as of January 27. (Results for February 2012 have not yet been published.)

See last month’s Wallyhood post about the Recycling Challenge for more ideas for adding weight to your recycling cart.

Final contest results will be announced several weeks after the contest ends on March 30.

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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper as volunteer lead of the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Eastern and where Pacific becomes N 34th. In February 2020 Barb founded the current Friends of Meridian Playground which cares for the fruit trees and grounds of the park and holds weekly volunteer work parties on Wednesday noonish. Friday mornings she joins the Tilth Alliance volunteers to manage the care of the fruit trees at the Good Shepherd learning garden. Barb worked for nonprofit City Fruit for 9 years and still partners with them to teach neighbors to grow good fruit locally. Barb is also accumulating records and photos about the Good Shepherd property for eventual publication online.

This Post Has 8 Comments

  1. KimberlyC March 24, 2012

    I have room in my yard waste at 3827 Bagley.

  2. Janey March 24, 2012

    I’ll try to get out and do some cleaning of the gunk in our gutters. My winter clean up is done, so I’ll gladly take more yard waste at 1426 N. 47th St. I have extra containers to put out if there’s that much.

  3. Barb March 25, 2012

    Janey – we filled up your 96 gallon yard waste cart with leaves from N 48th St (block north of the Post Office) plus 1/2 of an additional garbage can. Thank you!

  4. Chris March 26, 2012

    A great time to load up recycling with encyclopedias that don’t have an entry for “Internet” or list Ukraine as a country, phone books, tech books (those old Windows NT 4.0 manuals can go, and Pascal & Prolog are *not* making a comeback), travel guides that don’t have the euro as a currency, etc.

  5. Barb March 26, 2012

    Dump those old soft cover books in the recycling bin, but no hardback books. There is too much glue in the hard cover to be recycled. You can cut out the pages and recycle those, but the covers need to go in the landfill-bound garbage.

  6. Lauren March 26, 2012

    Thanks for the reminder. I’ve been hanging on to (hoarding?!) a bunch of old magazines that I decided to dump. I need to get them in there this week!

  7. katia March 26, 2012

    I won’t be able to rake but I have room in my yard waste at 2408 43rd Street.

  8. Barb March 28, 2012

    Thanks all who donated their carts. Today we took four 32 gallon garbage cans of leafy gunk off the streets and sidewalks and into your yard waste.

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