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Did you know your trash and recycling cans need to have their lids fully closed for the city to ensure they get emptied? 🙉 While sometimes cans with slightly open lids still get serviced, there are instances where overflowing cans get skipped entirely. The reason is simple: during pick-up, if the lid isn’t shut, bags and trash can easily fly out, causing a big mess. To avoid this, make sure your cans aren’t overflowing and the lids are securely closed when you place them at the curb. Help keep the streets clean and ensure your trash gets collected! 💯 #canmonkey #cantocurb #closedlids

“Composting should be free just like trash” If only that was how it worked. —————————— During #EarthDay and International Compost Awareness Week festivities, I got that chance to be out and about at various community events representing WasteNot, Inc. At these events, there are always a few people who want to start composting with our service, but aren’t able to commit the necessary funds in their budget at the moment. Inevitably, some of these people will plead with me that composting should be free for everyone. While I love the sentiment, I envy the communication specialists who have been able to convince a large portion of the population that collecting trash is free of charge. I end up being the bearer of bad news in these scenarios - telling passionate would-be-composters that trash actually is not free. Whether you know it or not, everyone is paying for trash (and the maintenance of defunct landfills) one way or another. I know that if people understood the true cost of trash and there were more incentives in place to decrease generation of trash in the first place, we’d create an economy in which composting is the cost effective waste disposal option. Anyway, here is a selfie I took last week when I took the day off to head to Springfield for Illinois Environmental Council Zero Waste Lobby Day. It was great to speak with legislators interested in making changes to the Illinois waste landscape. As always, it's a privilege to work at WasteNot, Inc. where we’re making strides everyday to lower that barrier for entry and to make sustainable waste disposal a seamless addition to any home or business.

Stringed Lights SHOULD NOT Be Disposed of In Your Recycling Bin! Do you have an abundance of holiday lights that are burned out and unusable? If so, you can SIMPLY PUT THEM IN YOUR REGULAR TRASH. Stringed lights in a recycling bin will cause a problem at the recycling facility and are potentially hazardous to those working in the facility as they become wrapped around equipment and need to be manually cut off. Unusable lights and any other garbage placed in your regular trash will be used as fuel to create electricity when it is brought to the York County Resource Recover Center by your hauler. All of York County’s municipal curbside trash is combusted and turned into alternative power. Your old holiday lights used to create electricity, who knew? Waste-to-Energy: working for York County. For more information on the process of waste-to-energy, visit https://lnkd.in/eKw7-b3Y . #keepyorkcountycleanandsafe

WQOW-News 18 18 covers our new research on the city of Eau Claire's model for garbage and recycling pickup. It's unique among Wisconsin cities of its size -- and Eau Claire residents appear to pay more than residents in cities that contract for city-wide services. Shifting to city-provided garbage and recycling service could reduce costs to Eau Claire residents. However, it also could raise new questions, such as how to avoid disrupting services or how to address high capital costs.

Waste and Recycling Workers Week is a great time to show your appreciation by serving those who serve our communities. Throughout the week of June 17th, join us in thanking your garbage collection providers and all those who work in the waste industry. Here are a few things you can do to show your support - Join the Recycling Effort - Let’s take some ownership for our garbage contributions. Consider ways you can reduce, recycle and reuse the things being thrown in the garbage from your own home. Call to Say, “Thank you” - It’s easy to complain when things are not done right. Consider calling your local provider with a word of thanks and appreciation for all the weeks they do their job well! Help Them Lift It! - Got a big pile after your spring cleaning efforts? How about meeting them at the curb and helping them lift it in. A little kindness goes a long way to show we are aware of their efforts. #SansomEquipment #WasteRecyclingWorkersWeek #Sanitation #PublicWorks #Recycling #Waste #SanitationWorkers #GarbageMan

Thanks to my friend Nic Esposito for sharing this article that highlights why I feel so strongly about government innovation and the culture change that goes along with it. If there's one thing I've learned in my government career, it's that public sector employees always (ok, almost always) design programs with the best of intentions. I don't doubt for one minute that the folks who were part of these conversations around trash collection in Philly believed that twice a week pick up would make our city cleaner. With that as the foundation though, I'd love to see exactly who was involved in those conversations, what questions were asked, what other solutions were brainstormed, and what role data played in the process. Government is littered (no pun intended) with programs that missed their intended mark because of an incomplete design process - maybe a key stakeholder voice wasn't included, alternatives weren't evaluated, or data and research wasn't effectively leveraged - and we're left with an expensive, ineffective solution that solves the wrong problem. Programs like the Innovation Academy and the Permit Accelerator work to combat this challenge by diffusing the capacity to innovate among individual employees, shifting the narrative that "innovation" only happens in Innovation Teams or by Directors of Innovation, to one where everyone can be their own agents of change. But until that mindset is truly embedded into every team, every workforce, and every administration, we will continue to build programs in ways that don't actually serve our intended audiences. I'm so thrilled to see governments embracing innovation, but we still have so much work to do!

Waste and Recycling Workers Week is a great time to show your appreciation by serving those who serve our communities. Throughout the week of June 17th, join us in thanking your garbage collection providers and all those who work in the waste industry. Here are a few things you can do to show your support - Join the Recycling Effort - Let’s take some ownership for our garbage contributions. Consider ways you can reduce, recycle and reuse the things being thrown in the garbage from your own home. Call to Say, “Thank you” - It’s easy to complain when things are not done right. Consider calling your local provider with a word of thanks and appreciation for all the weeks they do their job well! Help Them Lift It! - Got a big pile after your spring cleaning efforts? How about meeting them at the curb and helping them lift it in. A little kindness goes a long way to show we are aware of their efforts. #SansomEquipment #WasteRecyclingWorkersWeek #Sanitation #PublicWorks #Recycling #Waste #SanitationWorkers #GarbageMan

🌟 Going Above & Beyond with Trash Butler! 🌟 At Trash Butler, we believe in delivering more than just service—we deliver peace of mind. Our team works tirelessly to maximize space, streamline operations, and ensure cleaner, happier communities for everyone. 💡 Watch our team in action as they showcase best practices for organizing and handling waste efficiently. The butler saw an opportunity and made sure to remove blockage in the dumpster to allow for more trash. This helps avoid overage fees and staging trash when trash is properly placed, so the dumpsters can be used effectively. Together, we’re setting the standard for sustainability and cleanliness in multi-family communities nationwide. 📽️ Check out the video to see how we’re redefining doorstep trash and recycling solutions—one pickup at a time! #TrashButler #AboveAndBeyond #CleanerCommunities #SustainabilityInAction #ValetTrash

Meet Bill and Wayne, an octogenarian and septuagenarian who are unerring models of consistency: every single morning, rain or shine, they are out in our local park for their 1-hour walk. Today, Wayne was toting a large bag and collecting garbage left by others over the weekend. There were at least 10 spots in the park where litter was left on the ground, many close to the nearby river which drains into the Chesapeake. Of course littering is abhorrent and unacceptable, as is the pollution of our natural spaces and waters. But, are more trash cans and recycle bins a solution to this problem? Spoiler alert: No. Until we turn off the tap of garbage at its source, problems like this will continue to manifest and worsen. What’s needed is a reliable, easy-to-use system of products in reusable packaging, which would eliminate the need for these single-use disposables in the first place. We are building SpringEats.Com to create this solution. But we need your help to transition to a cleaner, trash-free world. Please do your part and join us on this mission! You can become a part of the solution by participating in this conversation and many more by discussions being driven by Anukampa Freedom Gupta-Fonner. Fairfax County Park Authority #CircularEconomy #pollution #climateaction #reuse #refill #return #circularpackaging #maketrashhistory #reverselogistics #packaging #plastics #singleusepollution #beyondsingleuse #socialentrepreneurship 

What America can learn from Miami’s trash nightmare Miami-Dade County officials are considering building the country’s biggest trash incinerator. Nobody wants it. County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava proposed what she said would be the best solution to a bad problem: replacing the wrecked incinerator with a new $1.5 billion waste-to-energy facility that would generate enough electricity for 70,000 homes, pollute less than the old plant and — the mayor said — wouldn’t stink. If built, it would be the biggest incinerator in the United States, potentially paving the way for other cities and counties to adopt a waste-management method that some scientists say is the least bad option to deal with trash that can’t be recycled or composted. The core of the problem is that Americans throw out more trash than almost any other people on the planet — and lag behind other wealthy countries in recycling and composting. That leaves U.S. cities with two flawed options for getting rid of waste: burn it or bury it. In recent years, more local governments have been considering incineration. The strategy has become common in Europe, China and Southeast Asia as the technology has advanced from the heavily polluting plants of the early 20th century to a new generation of facilities that contaminate less and offer other opportunities. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e3nne8Xd