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I used to wonder if it really made a difference to recycle egg cartons and plastic bags at the grocery store and food cans and newspapers in the City's black recycling bins . Then I had a conversation with a long-time friend of mine who now lives in Taliaferro County. Taliaferro is the smallest, poorest county in Georgia. She told me that Cobb County had wanted to put a landfill in Taliaferro County since Cobb was running out of space for their garbage. The result was an on-going battle, with appeals to every type of court and public official. After that long battle, amazingly, Taliaferro County won. But it was a difficult, time-consuming and costly ordeal for both sides. When I heard this story, I realized that there is a problem with landfills and landfill space; and that recycling does matter since recycled trash doesn't end up in a landfill.
People major in Environmental Science in college, so I certainly can't say all there is to say on the subject in a few articles. And I'm not a scientist. What I can talk about, however, is conservation as it relates to North Buckhead, and how we in our community can make a difference.
I look at the trash thrown out of cars onto Wieuca Road, West Wieuca, other neighborhood streets, and even onto our yard from cars passing by. It is clear from this that not everybody cares enough about their environment to make even the simplest effort to keep their trash in their own car and put it in a garbage container when they get home.
But hopefully most people do want to make the world a better place. Most care about the air we breathe, the water we drink, the earth we walk on, global warming, and the appearance of their community. So, I wonder: what can we do to make a difference here at home?
The list on the right side of this page answers the question: What will the City of Atlanta take in their recycling bins? This information is taken from the www.dreamsan.com web site, and from an interview with Kyle Higa, Executive Administrator at Dreamsan. I suggest you clip out the column which is entitled "RECYCLING GUIDELINES", and put it on a bulletin board or refrigerator or similar spot for easy reference.
In this part of this series, the issue of recycling has been discussed. Future articles will address additional conservation issues: reducing and reusing.
(If you have comments on North Buckhead environmentalism you'd like to share with the Newsletter, contact Sue Certain at 404-231-1192 & e-mail sccertain@comcast.net.)
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