Advertising - 25% off About Us Who We Are Our Sites: AboutMyPlanet HybridMile GirlSustainable EcoFriendlyDaily GadgetAddiction GrowNews

Go Back   AboutMyPlanet Community > News & Discussions > Environmental News
Register Members List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Popular Articles
Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 09-13-2007, 10:42 AM
Raptor235's Avatar
Raptor235 Raptor235 is offline
Treehugger
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,891
Raptor235 has disabled reputation
Send a message via MSN to Raptor235
Default Greener Apartments, One Building At A Time

The debate in Toronto has been raging for years. In a city that’s trying to stop shipping garbage to Michigan by boosting its recycling and composting programs, the hundreds of thousands of apartment buildings in the city present a difficult obstacle. How do you convince apartment residents who live on higher floors to cart their recycling downstairs to a dumpster or a garbage room? Toronto Green Community, a non-profit organization, is tackling the issue. With their encouragement, the property manager of a Deerford Road apartment building was willing to take on the challenge of improving the waste diversion of the high rise, and bought recycling bins for each apartment.
You can find the entire article here http://aboutmyplanet.com/?p=1433
Reply With Quote
Reply



Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes



Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.0.0