The City of Seattle’s and Waste Management’s Think Green recycling challenge is nearing an end, and Wallingford is in the lead, which could mean a “Main Street Makeover” for our ‘hood.
Wallingford, or “Friday North” as referred to in the challenge, has a solid lead over the nine other areas in for the win. The challenge encourages Seattle communities to reduce their overall waste by decreasing garbage and increasing their efforts to recycle and compost. The one that reduces the most waste will win a $50,000 grant to give their community a “Main Street Makeover.” Grant money will be spent on improvement projects within the winning community. The competition runs through the end of March 2012.
The winning neighborhood will be determined by the highest diversion rate, which increases as recycling and composting increase and garbage decreases. The six-month competition began in October 2011.
In the past year, we have decreased our garbage to one small can a week and increased our recycling to about 1 1/2 large bins every other week (for a 2-family house).
Is that $50k govt money or real dollars? If it's govt money that means Wallingford might get their street light bulbs replaced.
Wow, what a “makeover”!
The graph above only represents two months of data. Still four months to go in the contest.
I am tired of spending taxpayer money on “GREEN” programs that are nothing but handouts of taxpayer dollars to scammers, ripoff artists, professional grant chasers, green snake oil salesmen, and bloodsucking green leeches. If the city of Wallingford wants to lead in any green program, why can't they just go ahead and do it? We have wasted billions on solar, wind, tidal, biofuels, and worthless electric cars. Time for a taxpayer revolt!