First Lego League Team explains why you should keep your food waste out of the trash


First Lego League Team explains why you should keep your food waste out of the trash
By Scott Rogers • November 18, 2015
The video above (click it to go watch it) and the explanation below are brought to you by some creative and civic-minded youths in our community, who are a part of a FIRST LEGO League team known as The Brick Dawgs. In August of this year, the City of Harrisonburg switched to a single stream trash collection system. Now residents can put all of their recyclables and trash together in the same container. It gets sent to a facility an hour away that sorts the trash from the recyclable material. This is a better system because now, much more of our trash will get recycled. However, there is a problem. When people put food waste or liquids in the trash, it makes it a lot harder for other things to be recycled. It degrades and ruins some of the recyclable materials, especially newspapers or cardboard boxes, and then they can't be recycled anymore. Also, food is 60% water, so this adds unnecessary weight and volume to the trash that the city has to collect and transport, which costs a lot more money. In the past, the city has had a hard time educating residents about issues like this, because we have a changing population with the university, for example. So we are trying to help. We have made a stop motion video to educate people about not putting food and liquid waste in their trash and to tell people what they could do instead. We are trying to spread the word about this new system and what Harrisonburg residents can do to help. Click here to watch their video. Receive Updates by Email Recent Articles: Is There A Price You WOULD Pay For This House? There Are Plenty Of Types Of Houses That Exist That Just Are Not Available To Purchase Home Sales By Price Range In The City Of Harrisonburg Are You Compromising On Aspects Of Your Next Home That You Can Or Cannot Change Later? How Much Slower Are The Winter Months In Our Local Housing Market? Rockingham County and New Home Sales Drive Surge in Area Housing Market Find The Balance Between Optimistic And Realistic Home Pricing Room Size Is Difficult To Understand Solely From Real Estate Photos How Much Would You Value Not Having To Prepare Your Home For Showings? One Out Of Four Homes Is Taking Longer Than A Month To Sell
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