City Councilman Steve Kozachik wants to Continue to Serve the People of Ward Six in Tucson

Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik wants to:   Make your drinking water safe. Regulate the construction of 5G networks throughout Tucson. Protect historical buildings and small businesses on the Sunshine Mile Corridor. Expand the city recycling program and use the byproducts as tools in construction and landscaping. Serving Ward Six since 2009, Councilman Kozachik wants … Read more

Envision Tucson Sustainable Festival 2019 on October 26

Envision Tucson Sustainable Festival 2019! Celebrate Our Local Sustainable Community!  Updated schedule below: “Envision Tucson Sustainable Festival will take place Saturday, October 26, from 11 am to 4 pm, at Armory Park, in Downtown Tucson. The Festival explores and celebrates our local sustainable community at a family-friendly event that is free to attend. Over 50 … Read more

Support HB 2395 to Save Local Recycling, the Environment, and Our Economy

This has been a year of action for Sustainable Tucson. We committed to including an action with every educational meeting.

At our Recycling and Beyond meeting, we not only learned about the new rules for recycling and why they are important, but we also formed a Zero Plastic Waste team. Here is a recording of our first meeting. But it is really a working group. We already wrote and promoted the blog, “Lessons from Our Recycling Queen.” (I suggest everyone read and learn it. Our bad recycling is making it cost prohibitive to have a recycling program in Tucson.) We just finished drafting a one-sheet (two sides) about HB2395 – which repeals the law that makes it illegal for towns like Bisbee to ban plastic grocery bags and other packaging. The one-sheet will be included in attendees’ folders for Environmental Day at the Capitol and they will be handed to our state legislators.

Even if you can’t attend Environmental Day at the Capitol, you can still help out by e-mailing your state representatives and asking them to support HB2395.

Feel free to attach a link to the one-sheet to your e-mail:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L6LYwJBw640kMmrgZbVvgKG3TClm9R36/view?usp=sharing

And here is the link to the actual bill, HB2395, that repeals ARS 9-500.38 and 11-269.16:

https://bit.ly/2GD3LIO

To find out who your Representative is, just find your district and use that to look up your Rep.

If you haven’t already, you might wanna go ahead and sign up for Request to Speak. I will be posting opportunities to weigh in on this bill when it gets into committee.

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The Real Recycling 101

After the city’s falsely named “Recycling 101” event turned out to be more of a budget meeting than a presentation on how to recycle, Sustainable Tucson hosted our own program, “Recycling and Beyond.” We stressed to Sherri Ludlam, Environmental Scientist in the Department of Environmental and General Services, that this time we wanted her to concentrate on the rules for recycling. Her chosen topic was “old and new challenges to Tucson’s recycling program.” One of the new challenges was that China wouldn’t be accepting all of our dirty recycling anymore because of the contamination. Contamination is all the trash that doesn’t belong in recycling – including plastic bags that jam up the machines. That same contamination is costing the company contracted to do our recycling truck loads of money. Our bad. Tucsonans put everything from dirty diapers to dead cats to Saguaros in our recycling cans. Sherri reminded us that there are actual people who sort through all that yucky trash. So don’t throw in anything that you wouldn’t want to find in your own recycling can.

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Unique V Day: tour of recycling facility & landfill

My husband and I took this fascinating & educational tour last year on Valentine’s Day 2014– it’s a unique gift of love for your partner/spouse and for our planet Earth. TOUR THE LOS REALES LANDFILL AND RECYCLING FACILITY ON VALENTINE’S DAY The City of Tucson Environmental Services Department (ES) is offering a tour of the Los … Read more