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Is your city wasteful?

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Thu, Jan 20 2011 at 7:25 AM EST
  • America's least wasteful cities
  • San Francisco loves trains and recycling ...
  • Rain barrels rule
  • Baltimore wants a doggie bag
  • Seattle reduces and reuses
  • Seattle checks out the library
  • Orlando turns off the tap
  • Sacramento's bright ideas
  • Indianapolis shops secondhand
  • Garbage and recycling
From hanging clothes out to dry to using rain barrels and buying secondhand clothes, the Nalgene Least Wasteful Cities Study puts the nation’s top 25 metro areas under scrutiny for wasteful behavior. Overall, the study suggests that urban Americans have shown slight improvements in curbing wasteful behavior. 
 

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MotherLodeBeth 01/21/2011 22:39 PM

Nice to see that out of the top 10 cities, 4 are here on the west coast. Used to live in Seattle, then the San Francisco bay area and now in the Sierras east of Sacramento. Yes!!!

Am curious why the middle of the country has so few cities that recycle. I know that when a friend of mine was offered a job in Indiana that he returned here to CA after six months because he missed the environmental sensitivity and organic food choices.

Not sure if its still true, but Seattle was.... More

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