Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced last week the return of recycling as a city service. Beginning Saturday, August 14th, 2010, Orleans Parish residents and small business owners will be able to bring designated items to the City’s drop-off site, located at 2829 Elysian Fields between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m on Saturdays only. Materials do not need to be sorted prior to drop-off. Materials that will be accepted at the drop-off site include:
- Paper
- Cardboard
- Newspaper and magazines
- Junk mail
- Aluminum cans
- Plastic soda and water bottles
- Liquid detergent and bleach bottles
- Milk, water and juice bottles
- Tin, steel and metal cans
- Tires (four maximum)
Glass recycling is not yet included in the program. Also, residents will not be provided bins for collecting their own materials but can bring their recyclable products to the collection site in their own containers.
For more information, please see the New Orleans Recycling Guide.
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Coca Cola’s traveling Recycling Education Vehicle will visit the Tulane campus on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, encouraging students to recycle in the midst of Mardi Gras. The vehicle will be parked between Irby House and Bruff Commons from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. There will be rewards for recyclers who bring bottle and cans and information about Tulane’s recycling system and RecycleMania competition. A count will be kept all day of the number of bottles and cans brought in by students, staff and faculty from the Superbowl and Mardi Gras weekend.
The visit is part of a year-long collaboration between Coke and Tulane to expand campus recycling and ultimately recycle every bottle sold on campus. Recycling bins added to athletic venues this year were provided by Coke, fashioned from barrels that the company uses to ship syrup. With Coke’s assistance, bottle and can recycling on campus increased an estimated 35% between 2008 and 2009, with 31 tons of plastic bottles and aluminum cans recycled in 2009.
Tulane’s uptown campus is in the midst of RecycleMania, a 10 week recycling competition between college and universities. For more information on RecycleMania and recycling at Tulane, visit www.Recycle.tulane.edu.
Allied Waste of New Orleans recently announced the reopening of its recycling facility and is hosting a monthly recycling drop-off for the public.
When: 1st Saturday of every month
Where: 804 L&A Road, Metairie, LA
Time: 8:00AM-1:00PM
Items accepted: paper, cardboard, newspaper, magazines, junk mail, aluminum cans, plastic soda and water bottles, liquid detergent and bleach bottles, milk jugs, tin cans, steel cans. They also accept E-waste: computers, monitors, televisions, etc. Unfortunately, no glass accepted.
Directions: Take Airline Highway to La Barre Road (McDonald’s is on the corner). Turn by McDonald’s, cross the railroad tracks and then turn left onto L & A Road. Go approximately 1.8 miles and you will see the facility on the right.
Attend as many of these forums as possible and ask the candidates whether they have signed the NOLA Recycles 2010 Candidate Statement!
THURSDAY, JAN. 21
Mayoral candidate forum on the future of public education in New Orleans
When: 6 p.m. Where: Warren Easton Senior High, 3019 Canal
St., New Orleans
Sponsor: Loyola’s Institute for Quality and Equity in Public Education
Candidates for City Council Districts D and E
When: 7-8:3-pm Where: La Quinta Inn 12340 I 10 Service Road
East (NOLA East)
Sponsor: 40 Community members and leaders from local community organizations, including Mary Queen of Viet Nam Church, Village de l’Est, Melia Subdivision, MQVN Community Development Corporation, Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans, Micah Project, and Sierra Club
MONDAY, JAN. 25
Mayoral candidate forum
When: Noon Where: Student Life Center gym, Delgado
Community College, 615 City Park Ave.
Sponsor: Delgado Office of Institutional Advancement. WWL-TV anchor Dennis Woltering to moderate
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27
Mayoral candidate forum on city management and regionalism
When: 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: Nunemaker Hall, Loyola University
Sponsor: Committee for a Better New Orleans/Metropolitan Area Committee
Candidates for City Council Districts A and C
When: Noon Where: Lac Maurepas Room, Student Life Center,
Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave.
Sponsor: Delgado Office of Institutional Advancement
MONDAY, FEB. 1
Mayoral candidate forum on housing and transportation
When: 7 to 9 p.m. Where: Our Lady of Holy Cross College, 4123
Woodland Drive, Algiers
Sponsor: Committee for a Better New Orleans/Metropolitan Area Committee
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Have you RSVPed to our next meeting yet?
We delivered our six point plan to all of the candidates who are running for mayor and hope that YOU will join us at our next meeting on
Monday, January 11th
6:30PM-8:30PM
Langston Hughes Academy Charter School, 3519 Trafalgar Street, NOLA 70119
Light refreshments provided!
Click here to learn more and RSVP. See you there, and Happy New Year!
Hi friends and supporters! If you haven’t read and signed the NOLA Recycles 2010 petition yet, what are you waiting for?
Our next mobilization meeting is on January 11th. (RSVP here.) See you in January, and Happy Holidays!
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Hi everyone! Due to forecasted rain and potential flooding, we are postponing tonight’s mobilization meeting. The next mobilization meeting will be rescheduled after the holidays on Monday, January 11th. Same time, same place: 6:30PM-8:30PM at Langston Hughes Academy Charter School, 3519 Trafalgar Street, NOLA 70119. The RSVP link remains the same: check out the info for the January Mobilization Meeting here.
Thanks to all of our supporters and Happy Holidays! Make sure to catch some of the candidate forums this week – and ask the candidates about their positions on recycling!
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At our next meeting: we’ll know for sure who’s running for mayor. Join us, and bring your neighbors and friends, to:
- Find out about public community meetings where you can publicly ask the candidates where they stand on recycling.
- Sign up for canvassing, phone-banking, house-party-hosting and letter-to-the-editor writing.
- Go on camera to discuss why recycling should be brought back to New Orleans.
- Make your own NOLA Recycles 2010 t-shirt. Just bring an old shirt that you’d like to recycle, and we’ll silk-screen it onsite.
- Make your own NOLA Recycles 2010 postcards and yard signs. If you see any yard signs that are placed in illegal areas (like neutral grounds), remove them and bring them to the meeting.
Monday December 14th, 2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM
Langston Hughes Academy Charter School
3519 Trafalgar Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
RSVP Here! http://nolarecycles2010dec.eventbrite.com/
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Our first event on October 26th at the Bridge Lounge was a great success. A few hundred people attended, including two mayoral candidates, one city council candidate, and the WDSU evening news.
