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15 11, 2019

10 Ways to Make a Difference on America Recycles Day

By |2019-10-25T09:40:57+00:00November 15th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

National Recycling Day, also known as America Recycles Day, is a Keep America Beautiful national initiative. November 15 is dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States. Below are 10 ideas to help you and your family get started on your clean-environment efforts! Set up recycling stations at home, work and school. Provide easily identifiable sorting bins for plastics, aluminum, glass and paper. Write a promise to the planet for how you will reduce, reuse or recycle. Upcycle [...]

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24 10, 2019

The Future of Clean Water on the Alabama Gulf Coast

By |2019-09-22T02:45:22+00:00October 24th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

Water pollution has numerous sources. The Mobile Bay National Estuary Clean Water Future program encourages people to spread the word, not the pollution. The Create a Clean Water Future campaign is working with many individuals, businesses, community groups and schools to stop water pollution. This movement involves community support to raise awareness about storm runoff and the pollution it carries. Clean Water Future partners with more than 42 organizations, including cities and businesses, to provide education on water pollution while [...]

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17 10, 2019

How You Can Help at Home, Work and Beyond

By |2019-09-22T02:38:27+00:00October 17th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

Recycling success starts with individual effort, community involvement and education. Recycling is a great way to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills or incinerators. Plus, once you get the hang of it, it becomes second nature and effortless. The first step in recycling is to set aside one container for recyclable material next to your garbage bin. This can be a box, bin or bag. The container serves as a quick visual reminder for everyone in [...]

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10 10, 2019

Recycling Habits in the U.S. and the Outlook for the Future

By |2019-09-22T02:29:46+00:00October 10th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

Recycling in the United States is on the uptick and has been so since the 1980s, but there is still room for improvement. In 1980, Americans recycled 15 million tons of waste. Move forward 30+ years and we are now recycling 87 million tons a year - about 34% of the overall waste, which totals 251 million tons. Of the 87 million tons that were recycled, 51% consisted of paper and paperboard, 22% yard trimmings, 9% metal, 4% food waste, [...]

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30 09, 2019

Why It’s Important to Reduce Waste – and How to Do So

By |2019-09-22T02:05:48+00:00September 30th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

Everything in this world is connected, but sometimes the choices we make don’t support that fact. We don’t think about growing landfills. We don’t consider our effect on the natural environment around us. By reducing waste, we lessen the negative impact to agriculture and fresh water. With less landfill waste that produces natural gasses due to the decay of materials, we protect endangered species. For those and many more reasons, we need to drastically reduce waste. Recycling is smart, too, [...]

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12 08, 2019

Create a Leave Only Footprints lifestyle at home

By |2019-07-23T12:03:42+00:00August 12th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

When you visit our beaches, we ask that you leave them better than you found them. But your Leave Only Footprints lifestyle doesn’t need to stop when you leave the beach. Below are just a few ways you can reduce your impact on our environment even after returning home. 1) Reuse, Reduce, Recycle Find information about recycling programs in your area. When you reuse, reduce and recycle, you save money, energy and natural resources. 2) Use Canvas Bags Instead of Plastic [...]

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5 08, 2019

You can protect the beach by practicing these 7 Leave No Trace principles

By |2019-07-23T11:52:42+00:00August 5th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

The Leave No Footprints policy in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach is based on the seven Leave No Trace principles. The Leave No Trace program encourages everyone to enjoy and explore the outdoors while leaving minimal impact on the environment. Since we all want to preserve our beautiful beaches for generations to come, let’s take a look at how these principles apply when visiting our beaches along the Alabama Gulf Coast. 1) Plan ahead. The best beach day starts before you [...]

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6 07, 2019

Beyond the Beach: Gulf Shores Recycling Program

By |2019-06-26T00:42:49+00:00July 6th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

One of the best ways you can protect the Gulf of Mexico? Reusing and recycling. In 2016, the City of Gulf Shores http://www.gulfshoresal.gov decided to completely revamp their recycling program to make it easier for both residents and visitors to do their part. Recycle at the beach During your day at a Gulf Shores public beach, you’ll notice blue and gray bins along the sand. The blue bin is for recyclable materials and the gray bin is for landfill items. [...]

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2 07, 2019

Be kind to the beach: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle!

By |2019-06-26T00:18:06+00:00July 2nd, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

You’re on the beach. The sun is high in the sky. You just finished the last sip of your cold, canned beverage of choice. What’s your next move? Well, we all know that if you’re one of the cool kids, you’ll recycle that bad boy in one of the recycling bins located along that sugar white sand. Here are just a few reasons why: Recycling conserves finite resources. When you recycle and use materials more than once, you conserve valuable [...]

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6 03, 2019

Educate Yourself on Recycling Bin Contamination

By |2019-03-06T21:32:45+00:00March 6th, 2019|Blog|0 Comments

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 75% of waste is recyclable, yet only about 34% of it is recycled. What is standing in the way? One big factor is recycling contamination. Recycling contamination is when non-recyclables such as food waste, plastic bags, styrofoam and other items become intermingled with recyclable materials. The problem developed alongside the creation of single-stream recycling, which eliminated recycling sorting for curbside programs. Due to a lack of proper education on the recycling processes, 1 in 4 [...]

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