Portland ready to test recycling residents' kitchen scraps
04.02.10
After five years of delays, Portland is ready to try out collecting food waste from residents at curbside for recycling into compost, addressing the biggest glob left in the city's garbage.
Including dinner scrapings, meat, egg shells, coffee grounds and other food scraps in the curbside yard debris cart isn't a revolutionary concept. Seattle and San Francisco are doing it; so is Dubuque , Iowa.
The finished compost benefits farms and wineries. Recycling food waste and wastepaper, which makes up just over a fifth of the region's garbage, prevents it from stewing in a landfill, where it produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
But the city is planning to punt garbage collection from weekly to once every two weeks to help cover the extra cost of picking up the food-and-yard-waste cart weekly. Based on other cities' experiences, food waste collection and non-weekly garbage service -- at the same cost or more -- will shock a lot of customers.
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Source: OregonLive.com
Extreme Makeover: Inside Tour Grateful family thanks supporters, will hold an ...
05.02.10
By
Tim Clodfelter
| Journal Reporter
Published: February 5, 2010
LEXINGTON - Now that a nationwide audience has gotten a look inside the Creasey family's new home, the family is finally getting a chance to settle in.
"It feels like home now, it really does," said Tricia Creasey.
The home on Allred Road in Lexington was featured in Sunday's episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , an ABC reality series in which deserving families are given new homes. That episode can be seen online at abc.go.com .
The Creasey family -- parents William and Tricia, and daughters Brittany, 13, and twins Makenzie and Makayla, both 5 -- was selected in November .
The Creaseys had not been able to repair their old home after Tricia was found to have colon cancer and had started treatments. The bills left the family unable to pay to fix such problems as cracks in the foundation, holes in the floors, walls and roof, water damage and no insulation.
Source: Winston-Salem Journal