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A Few Great Events coming up in October - Join us!
Oct. 2: First Friday tabling - look for us out front of the now-opening Friendly Spot icehouse (former location of King Willie's on South Alamo)

Oct 10th: CPS Livegreenfest - sharing a booth with the fabulous Cove Restaurant - NOTE: this event is postponed due to rain - we'll keep you posted on new dates.

A Few Quick Tips for Promoting Recycling in San Anto:
Each day, you, me and everyone we meet can take a simple, everyday step to make our city a better place. We can all reduce, reuse, and recycle to keep our bills down and keep useful material out of landfills.

If you already have curbside recycling at your house: you can make the most of it by recycling not only the usual glass bottles and jars, but also paper of almost all types, plastics (labled #1 - #7) and metal. For questions: call "311."

If you live in an apartment or are a business owner and don't yet have recycling, you can help us secure recycling options by signing and circulating this petition. If you're a tenant, you can also ask your property manager what plans are underway to set up recycling.

Meanwhile, on this blog you'll find a raft of resources to help, brought to you by the Alamo Group of the Sierra Club.

We hope to hear from you: You can post your stories and suggestions here!

Prom Dresses to Wingtips

Beyond the usual papers, bottles and cans, a host of organizations and individuals are joining forces to keep the useful stuff of our lives in circulation and out of landfills.

Have a stroller that’s taking up space in your closet? Freecycle is a grassroots group with 7+ million members around the world that promotes the free exchange of still-useful stuff in local towns. You can post or ask for an item at a group near you at http://www.freecycle.org/.

If you find yourself with a “new or nearly new” gown, purse, jewlery or wrap, you can donate the duds that allow a high school student at Northeast ISD to attend her prom, recital or scholarship ceremony at Formally Yours Project, a nonprofit put together by the Lee High School Campus PTA.

Dell and Goodwill Industries set up the Reconnect Project to “accept any brand of used computer equipment in any condition” Just enter your zip code to find a drop off location.

And the EPA has published ways to recycle your old cell phone, batteries and charger through a retailer at Plug-In To eCycling.

Karma may be more difficult to recycle, but there’s always offering needed help to a friend.

San Antonio Can

When it comes to the humble proposal that we can meet higher goals for recycling in San Antonio, we sometimes hear, "It'll never happen in Texas...it'll never happen in San Antonio."

When inspiration runs low, it never hurts to get perspective. Today that comes in the form of a photograph. In this picture by David Gilkey (NPR website), donkey handlers are shepherding presidential ballots across a narrow bridge to reach to remote regions of Afghanistan.

Surrmounting would-be challenges to expanding recycling here, pales in comparison. There's no doubt that if we have the will, we can get it done.

"S.A. weighs recycling for apartment dwellers"

Get updated with this article by Sarah Snyder on San Antonio's pilot to explore apartment recycling for tenants.