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The Leon County Solid Waste Management Division has teamed up with the Agricultural Container Recycling Council to provide a recycling service for commercial and agricultural chemical containers.
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Containers must be plastic, dry, and properly triple-rinsed to be accepted. The service will be free to Leon County farmers and commercial applicators. |
Drop-off locations are at the Leon County Hazardous Waste Center, at 7550 Apalachee Parkway and at any one of the County’s four Rural Waste Service Centers.
This program does not currently include household products. For more information on recycling, click on the RECYCLE WHERE? tab at the top of the page.
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10:38 PM
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A long time ago, back in 2009, this
post introduced the City of Gainesville's feed tariff project to provide incentives for going solar, the first in the nation. How is it doing?
A recent post on the
Climate Progress blog reports that since launching their program, Gainesville has experienced a 3,400% increase in solar power capacity.
The City’s 11.45 megawatts (MW) of installed solar capacity make it the national leader in per capita rate of installed solar. Other states have followed, recognizing a viable opportunity for expanding production of cost-effective, clean local energy.
Called CLEAN (Clean Local Energy Accessible Now), it is becoming a cost-effective solution for building stable clean energy markets.
More information is available at the CLEAN Coalition
website.
12:14 PM
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WFSU Perspective's program featured
Sustainable Tallahassee's Carbon Fund program this morning, highlighting the first project funded, Grace Mission.
You can use the carbon calculator to calculate your home or commercial useage and donate to the Carbon Fund to offset this usage. Sustainable Tallahassee uses the funding to help local non-profits save energy and thereby reduce their operating costs. Grace Mission is the first project to be funded.
If you missed the broadcast, you can listen to the podcast from this
link at WFSU.
Calculate your carbon footprint
here.
10:52 AM
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Green solutions for sewage overflows and harnessing water as a resource to improve communities was the feature of Peter Lehner’s recent post at the National Resources Defense Council's blog.
New York City is developing techniques like strategically located street plantings, porous pavements, and green roofs to address its problem of excess stormwater into a solution that will improve the health and livability of its neighborhoods, while cleaning up its waterways.
Think not only permeable pavers, but pervious asphalt and pervious concrete, which is fundamentally the same as regular asphalt or concrete, but it does not contain the fine particles that the regular product does. This creates porosity in the matrix, which allows water to flow through and infiltrate into the ground. The volume of stormwater runoff that flows off the pavement is greatly reduced, and the need for curbing, catch basins, and large detention facilities is reduced.
In 2008, David Smith, author of Pervious Interlocking Concrete Pavers for Roadway & Stormwater Facility Reduction, spoke in Tallahassee at an event sponsored by the USGBC. Since that time, the City of Tallahassee and the State of Florida have not overwhelmingly adopted installation of permeable surfaces as a part of construction projects around town.
10:29 AM
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The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism for your weekend reading.
This guide from Skeptical Science, publishers of Climate Change Denial, looks at both the evidence that human activity is causing global warming an,d the ways that climate ‘skeptic’ arguments can mislead by presenting only smallpieces of the puzzle rather than the full puzzle.
4:11 PM
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Despite, the huge variance in evaluation approaches, the
American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy says utility ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs are working.
A
report released last month reviews a variety of approaches that 44 states (plus Washington, DC) utilize to evaluate utility ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs and concludes that programs are cost-effective and successful. Florida is evaluated only by the utilities themselves, not the Public Service Commission or state Legislature as in some other states, ranking 33rd on the ACEEE energy efficiency scorecard. The evaluation is, however, required by statute (s. 366 and s. 377, FS).
9:31 AM
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All solar water heaters must be certified by the
Florida Solar Energy Center in order to be sold in Florida. Most residential homes heat water with electricity one of the most inefficient and most expensive methods.
In considering converting to a solar collector, the Solar Energy Center provides a Solar Hot Water System Calculator to provide consumers with information on the energy, cost and environmental savings potential of residential solar hot water systems in Florida.
Given the status of rebates for solar in Florida, it is best to calculate without considerations of a potential rebate for the system.
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