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)
While 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…)
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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
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