Sustainable North

From the Atlanta Business Chronicle June 24, 2008
The Home Depot Inc. has started a national program to help people recycle compact fluorescent light bulbs at all of its 1,973 U.S. stores.
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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer June 11, 2008.
Talk of management at the reuse pads and at the larger system of 14 garbage transfer sites boiled briefly this winter when a now-retired assemblyman unsuccessfully looked to reform the sites by banning dumpster diving. A contracted garbage hauler takes care of public trash bins at the 14 [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer May 27, 2008
Workers at Wal-Mart separate cardboard, plastics, paper and aluminum beverage cans before using a baling machine in the store’s back storage room to compress them into 600-pound cubes…
We’re all excited to be able to help the community out,” Bradley McGinnity, a co-manager at the store, said. “I think [...]

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