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Recyclying alert :WHOLE FOODS IS SPONSORING A RECYCLING EVENT
Our Zero Waste Action Group
reduce, reuse, recycle, compost... need we say more?
WHERE: Whole Foods Market Jenkintown
1575 The Fairway
Jenkintown, PA 19046
(215) 481-0800
WHEN: Saturday, June 18th, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m
Impact Thrift and 611 Metals will be in our parking lot collecting all of your unused household items.Bring new and gently used items to donate to Impact Thrift Stores and all of your unused, non-working electronics for recycling with 611 Metals.What we've done:
What we'd like to do:
- Ensured that these Transition Cheltenham events were Zero Waste by providing clearly marked containers for recycling & composting leaving very little residual waste destined to the landfill. ie at
- Gathering the Genius - May 2010
- The UnCar Picnic - June 2010
- Locavore Banquet & Mini Fest - Aug 2010
- Developed the Guide to Zero Waste in Cheltenham, based on the A to Z directory of local reuse & recycling options developed by the Mt Airy Greening Net and the Zero Waste Resource List developed by Sustainable Cherry Hill, and our Township's own Public Works.
Bubbling with ideas of your own? Please contact us!
Work toward 0-Waste at all Township Events
- Popularize home composting
- Build and Install a food-scrap anaerobic digestion system within a local greenhouse
- Build a papercrete mixer
Promote composting of organic waste at the household level and in schools and community gardens
- Support startup businesses that use materials from our waste stream as a primary input
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