The Brighton school district now has a policy on its books about cutting waste, but it’s not referring to the kind of government waste many people fixate on. The policy is referring to refuse. The Brighton school board recently adopted a district-wide policy to divert 80 percent of its waste from landfills. That will require […]
Waste reduction
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A blue note for the Jazz Fest
The Nature Conservancy of Central and Western New York, Xerox, and the City of Rochester offered a small but important service during the just-ended Jazz Fest: they provided a water bottle filling station that festival-goers could use for free. This isn’t a radical idea, or a new one. Filling stations have been brought in for […]
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Trash talk
In five years, Monroe County’s Mill Seat landfill, which takes waste from the county and the City of Rochester, could be full. But county officials want the Riga landfill to last another 25 years, so they’ve applied to the Department of Environmental Conservation for permission to add 118 acres to the current 95-acre landfill. County […]
