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Friday, November 06, 2009

Community Service Day Recap

On October 24, residents at Manchester Manor Apartments, Tanglewood Apartments, and Sligo Hills Apartments in Silver Spring were treated to on-site paper shredding/recycling and the opportunity to donate clothing and household goods to families in need.

Montgomery County collaborated with Office Paper Systems, A Wider Circle, and the Housing Opportunities Commission to provide these services in the parking areas of these properties.

Montgomery County volunteers and staff also went door-to-door, placing apartment-sized recycling bins and recycling information at the door of every apartment, and replaced the labels and posters at the collection areas to raise resident recycling awareness.

This event was part of the countywide Community Service Day, a day of volunteering to encourage the spirit of giving among county residents.

From the November 2009 issue of our TRRAC Newsletter for multi-family properties.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Our July 2009 TRRAC Newsletter is available

TRRAC is our program for recycling and waste reduction at apartment and condominium properties.

The July 2009 issue includes:

• 2009 Annual Recycling Awards
• Some easy steps to put your property in award
  contention

Interested in reading back issues? Visit our TRRAC Newsletter Archive.

--posted by Susanne

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Friday, June 05, 2009

Our February 2009 and May 2009 TRRAC Newsletters are available

TRRAC is our program for recycling and waste reduction at apartment and condominium properties.

The February 2009 issue includes:

• Making Recycling Count - monitoring performance
• Keep Up the Great Work!
• Let Your Residents Help!
• Where Did You Get Those Baby Blues?
• Seminar Attendees Share Effective Recycling Program Strategies
• Special Recycling Education Requests? Please Ask

The May 2009 issue includes:

• Simple Ways to Recycle More Outdoors
• Montgomery County Celebrates Earth Month
• Innovation Highlight: The Gallery at White Flint Looks "Inside the Box"
• Recycling — Cost vs. Benefit
• Got Mercury? We’ll Take It!

Interested in reading back issues? Visit our TRRAC Newsletter Archive.

--posted by Susanne

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Recycling Awareness Week: Special recycling achievements honored

Isn't this plaque beautiful?!   We gave this -- and others just like it -- to the individuals, and multi-family and business properties we honored during our Recycling Achievement Awards Recognition Program yesterday.

We were happy to honor our special recyclers with... an award made in the United States (Colorado, to be exact) from recycled glass.

Meet our honorees for  Excellence in Recycling, Outstanding Achievement, and Outstanding Achievement (Individual) at multi-family and business properties, and from our Recycling Volunteer corps.

Congratulations to all!

--posted by Susanne

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Our November 2008 TRRAC Newsletter is available

TRRAC is our program for recycling and waste reduction at apartment and condominium properties.

The November 2008 issue covers:

• Recycling Seminar: Training, Tips, and Tricks
  (register online)
• America Recycles Day: November 15 (event details)
• Montgomery County Expands its Plastics Recycling Program
• Recycling Enforcement
• Recycling in the Mailroom

Interested in reading back issues? Visit our TRRAC Newsletter Archive.

--posted by Susanne

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Friday, May 23, 2008

Recycling Awareness Week - awards given for special achievement

At yesterday's Recycling Achievement Awards Recognition Program, we celebrated recycling efforts in these categories:

• Outstanding Recycling Volunteers
• Multi-Family Property Excellence in Recycling
• Multi-Family Property Outstanding Improvement in Recycling
• Multi-Family Property Outstanding Individual Achievement in Recycling
• Excellence in Recycling -- Business
• Outstanding Achievement in Recycling - Business
• Outstanding Achievement in Recycling - Individual

Congratulations to all for helping to promote recycling in Montgomery County!

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Monday, March 24, 2008

Recycling Fact Sheets on 6 topics now available in our "web store"

We've just put recycling fact sheets on six popular topics into our "web store" for download.  These topics are:

• Aluminum & Bimetal Cans and Products
• Commingled Materials (cans, bottles, and jars)
• Mixed Paper
• Plastic Bottles with Narrow Necks
• Scrap Metal
• Yard Trim

We find the fact sheets handy for answering many frequently asked questions.  If you would like a quantity of any of these fact sheets to distribute to your neighborhood, multi-family tenants, employees, or other group, just let us know!

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Our January 2008 TRRAC Newsletter is available

TRRAC is our program for recycling and waste reduction at apartment and condominium properties. 

The January 2008 issue covers:

• A detailed look at our television recycling program
• Tips on completing your Annual Recycling Report
• A recycling rate update
• Ideas for celebrating Earth Day in April

Interested in reading back issues?  Visit our TRRAC Newsletter Archive.

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

No plastics bags, please!

While a picture tells a thousand words, showing the actual item is even more effective!

Using plastic bags and putting them into recycling containers labeled for commingled materials (aluminum cans and foil products, bi-metal steel/tin cans, glass bottles and jars, and plastic narrow-neck bottles) and mixed paper and cardboard is a common error. (While plastic grocery bags are recyclable, they typically are not acceptable in multi-family or single-family residential recycling programs. However, most local grocery stores in Montgomery County accept plastic shopping bags for recycling, so take them with you the next time you go grocery shopping.)

The program specialists in our multi-family recycling program visit apartments and condominiums daily, checking their recycling programs and efforts, and providing assistance to residents and property managers.

On a recent visit to a property in Bethesda, a program specialist found a plastic bag, emphatically labeled with "No!", to remind residents that these bags should not go into their recycling containers. Kudos to the property managers for displaying our recycling do's and don'ts poster (seen on the left; available in English and Spanish versions), and for supplementing the poster's information with an actual example!

Friday, November 02, 2007

Our Fall TRRAC and Civic Loop newsletters are available

Our staff has been busy publishing its Fall newsletters!  Here are two more, "hot off the presses"!

TRRAC is our program for recycling and waste reduction at apartment and condominium properties. 

The November 2007 issue covers:

• the upcoming recycling seminar on November 6
• tips on reducing the amount of cardboard in the trash
• a summary of recent enforcement activity
• a success story from The Waterford Condominium in Kensington

Interested in reading back issues?  Visit our TRRAC Newsletter Archive.

 

 

 

This new issue of the Civic Loop features:

• America Recycles Day
• The holiday recycling collection calendars for the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day holidays
• Mixed paper recycling tips
• Buying recycled

Yes, we have a Civic Loop archive, too!  Happy reading!

 

 

 

And, if you have questions about our programs or events after looking through our newsletters, let us know.