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‘Tis the season! Family, friends, gift-giving and good food. It also means an inordinate amount of waste is generated. There are ways to enjoy all of our favorite holiday traditions while minimizing our environmental impact. WEMU's David Fair gained some insight on best practices from zerowaste.org co-founder, Lydia McMullen-Laird.
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Let’s talk some trash! The 3rd annual Trash Talk Tour is right around the corner, and we’re going to find out how much fun there is in learning about how we deal with waste in Ann Arbor. The Trash Talk Tour is the brainchild of Dan Ezekiel. He is a retired science teacher, a local environmentalist and former chair of the Huron Valley Group of the Sierra Club. He joined WEMU's David Fair to fill us on how the family-friendly event educates us about the circular economy and how to live a zero-waste lifestyle.
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Washtenaw Clean-up Days are here! If you have bulk waste, old appliances, household hazardous waste or electronics that need to be disposed of, this is your time. Washtenaw County director of Public Works, Theo Eggermont joined WEMU's David Fair to discuss how you can participate and keep these materials out of the landfills and better protecting our environment.
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We are a society becoming increasingly dependent on disposable consumer products and it has a devastating impact on our environment. On "Issues of the Environment," WEMU's David Fair discusses the upcoming Zero Waste Challenge in Ann Arbor, with Live Zero Waste executive director Samuel McMullen. Find out what we can learn and how to make a difference.
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2019 marks year two of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s “Festival Footprint Initiative.” Initially, the plan was to get to a 90% waste diversion rate in…
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Ann Arbor's annual Earth Day Festival will take place on April 28th at the Leslie Science and Nature Center. 89.1 WEMU's Jorge Avellan tells what what…
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Another holiday season has come and gone, which means vacations, New Year's resolutions, and holiday waste. So, as the waste piles up, what are the most…
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For the last three decades, Food Gatherers has recovered food that would otherwise be wasted. It has put it to good use by helping feed the hungry in…
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Earth Day will be observed on Sunday, April 22, and there's an annual festival taking place in Ann Arbor.The Ann Arbor Earth Day Festival is put together…
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If you’ve ever been to a football game at Michigan Stadium, you may have noticed the abundance of trash that is generated. Throughout the game, workers…