Can’t recycle at home in Miami Dade County? Fix it.
One of the things that we most often get emailed about here at greenerMIAMI is "how in the heck can I recycle?" And the answer isn’t always an easy one. However, through the help of the research done by Luiz Rodrigues and ECOMB, we realized that there is a better answer. Most of us live in apartments or condominiums in which recycling is not offered. Here’s the interesting...
Read MoreRecycle That Tree
Time to take down that Christmas tree and get started with 2007? Don’t put your "real" tree in the trash! Recycle it and let it become the gift that keeps on giving – mulch! Miami Dade is now accepting trees that are CLEAN of ornaments and tinsel. Drop them off at the following locations between 7am and 5:30pm. Locations in green are also chip distribution locations. North...
Read MoreLive-Blogging: Miami Dade County Recycling Workshop
I’ll be live blogging this meeting now. We are on a month to month contract with our provider right now – BFI. Ask that the commission extends the relationship with BFI until we continue the RFP (request for proposal?) process. I believe that he said that they would like to consider an every other week recycling curbside on Wednesdays. The manager IS committed to having a curbside...
Read MoreRecycling Meltdown
The Herald has a piece today that discusses how the county is taking a look at curbside recycling. Meaning: it’s expensive and they are considering changing it or maybe even eliminating it. The article has two audio "podcasts" with interviews with Roger Carlton, asst. Miami-Dade County manager and Miami-Dade Solid Waste Director Kathleen Woods-Richardson. There is also a...
Read MoreHow to: Recycle Phone Books
Want to recycle your old phone books but don’t know how or where? If you have Miami-Dade recycling curbside pickup, you can put them out on top of your newspapers through November. If you have City of Miami recycling pickup, phone books can be recycled from November – February. If you don’t have recycling available to you, we recommend that you drop them off at a paper...
Read MoreMiami Beach 411 Helps Us Recycle
As you may know, greenerMIAMI has tried to make it a priority to provide our readers with options on how to get rid of their junk and trash in the right way. That means donating items that could still be useful to others, recycling materials that can be used to create new products, and properly disposing of potentially toxic materials. Well, it looks like greenerMIAMI isn’t the only one...
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