Much thanks to Great Michigan for the coverage provided below: About Great Michigan represents a collaborative effort among environmental, conservation, and public health groups across Michigan to collectively identify the most pressing environmental issues facing Michigan, present these issues to policy makers and the public in understandable terms, and provide realistic solutions to address them. This website is the result of input from organizations across the state working together to ensure Michigan citizens have access to clean water, clean air, open spaces, healthy food, vibrant cities, good jobs, sustainable transportation and safer products. The logos below represent many of the groups involved. Recycling Invest in Comprehensive Recycling and Reap the Environmental and Economic Benefits Resources that are valued (more…)
Read MoreHouse Vote Results for HB 4265 (March 15, 2012)
Update-Critical Backwards Step
Anti-Composting Bills Go Before Senate Committee Tomorrow! House Bills 4265 and 4266 – known as the Anti-Composting Bills – will go before the Michigan Senate Committee on Energy and Technology May 15, 2012. These bills would allow yard clippings into certain landfills which is a critical backwards step in Michigan. Yard waste has not been allowed in landfills since the ban ordered in 1995. To reduce landfill consumption and exploiting more land for garbage and toxic waste creating the collapse of a vibrant composting industry (developed) which allows Michiganders ready access to a more environmentally sustainable world. These bills would bankrupt the composting industry and its associated green jobs and make Michigan more vulnerable to out-of-state trash importation from states (more…)
Read MoreI was forwarded an e-mail regarding a legislative battle surrounding the controversy of commingling yard waste with garbage. “As this will not only effect the Composting Industry, Solid Waste Haulers, it will have a trickle down effect on the consumers cost for trash removal and the shortage of compost as an end result”-Douglas A. DeVoid On April 12, 2012 I wrote an article covering this subject Legislation Triggers Debate about Renewable Energy. It seems to me that the sides of debate are leaning towards loss of jobs and increased costs for the consumer can be expected! If you would like to see your name or business added to the list of opposed or unopposed please contact me at domesticleanup@yahoo.com. You may (more…)
Read MoreWhile the debate about the commingling of yard waste and garbage remains in the hands of Government Legislators. There has been criticism about Waste Management Haulers of West Michigan. The underlying motives about legislation regarding recycling and compromising the environment for monetary reasons. Let me emphatically say that Domestic Clean Up Services has made great strides to over see Environmental Protection and at a great costs to my family and company. I am not by any means trying to be contentious of any company or government agency, this is my personal assessment. I find it personally rewarding to be apart of groups and organizations that have the same motives of Environmental Preservation. I am merely setting the record straight and (more…)
Read MoreRecycling-Alternatives in Motion
Recycling-Alternatives in Motion Environmental issues has not always been apart of Domestic Clean Up Services behavior. When we started to provide waste management in 1991 we and many waste haulers contributed tons of toxins and recyclables to the Kent County landfills. During the time there was little enforcement or concern about environmental sustainability. Kent County amongst many counties and states allowed for the legal dumping of pollutants. The very dumping of pollutants plague us today such as the two landfills Kent County manages with a shortfall of 48% of $800 thousand dollars annually according to Doug Woods director of Kent County Department of Public Works. It is no surprise to me that in a bad economy and the need to (more…)
Read MoreUpdate: Don’t Trash and Burn Compost!
Kent County Promotes Earth Day April 22
Earth Day is April 22 Make every Day Earth Day > Commit to protect the environment > Take action > Learn-teach-share = New Generation of Adults that will take us beyond our future. Kent County is challenging teachers and students to actively collect recyclables. Drop the recyclables off at the new Kent County Recycling & Education Center 24/7. Get this if you are one of the top schools you will win a recycled plastic bench for your school!!! How cool is that? Thanks Kent County for your commitment, action, and efforts to educate the next generation of leaders in Kent County. http://www.recyclekent.org/
Read MoreThe Michigan House House of Representatives moved closer to passing a a package of bills that would allow the co-mingling of yard clippings with garbage in landfills. Currently Michigan residents are required to separate yard waste from trash due to the “Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act” of 1994, among other benefits of the law. Separating yard waste from garbage keeps landfills from producing methane, a greenhouse gas that is 23 times more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. The law also ensures a robust composting industry in the state. More
Read MoreWe have the best priced and most reliable Dumpster Rentals in Grand Rapids Michigan. Our full service yard waste, debris & demolition services are also second to none! Renting a dumpster can be expensive no matter what debris removal company you use. We separate our company from others in three important ways: Domestic Clean Up Service provides ideas on how you can effect the cost of a dumpster rental. Domestic Clean Up Service offers discounts to Seniors, Military Personnel, New Customers and Repeat Customers. Domestic Clean Up Service is interested in young peoples education. Although this article is about the provided savings of a dumpster rental I would hope that your efforts in Child Guidance would help “West Michigan’s” problems (more…)
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