The working group co-sponsored a lecture by Liz Walker, author and co-founder of EcoVillage in Ithaca, NY.
The working group has a table 1-2 times a month at the Montclair Farmer’s Market where we provide recycling educational material and promote other eco-friendly causes such as the Clean Power Choice Program.
The recyclable items discarded by residents, sometimes in public garbage receptacles and sometimes not, as they walk down the street, board or debark from the train or otherwise go about daily life in Montclair is unsightly, wasteful and unnecessary. What a pleasure it would be if the working group didn’t have to spend some summer weekends collecting discarded recyclables in the trash!
The Montclair Eco-Fair, organized and run by BlueWave’s Claire Ciliotta and students from the Montclair High School has been a great success. The 2009 Montclair Eco-Fair is on June 13th in Edgemont Park.
Idling your car for more than 3 minutes is against the law, wastes gas and money, and is detrimental to the environment.
Only number 1 and number 2 plastics are curbside recyclable in Montclair. Number 5 plastics can be taken to Whole Foods for recycling. All other plastics should be discarded as waste. Failure to follow these rules, or failure to recycle at all, wastes hundreds of thousands of taxpayer’s dollars each year. Watch the do’s and don’ts of recycling here.
The Working Group sponsored a lecture by Gray Russell on May 19, 2009 about the environmental impact of mining and burning coal for generating electricity. Gray, the Montclair Environmental Affairs Coordinator and participant in former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Project training program, spoke eloquently about the devastating effects of mountain top removal in the Appalachians, the pollutants produced by burning coal, and the myth of “clean coal.” More information on this topic is here.
