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Waste and Recycling

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Starbucks has Venti Recycling Goals

    If you've ever finished your drink in a Starbucks cafe, then looked around in vain for a recycling bin in which to deposit the empty cup, you're not alone. With less than 10% of Starbucks in Los Angeles County having customer recycling bins, a lot of our cups end up in landfills. There are 364 compa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    EPA Penalizes Ventura County Construction Company for Illegal Dumping Near Endangered Species

    ​The Calleguas Creek runs about 30 miles long up near Oxnard, delivering freshwater to Mugu Lagoon, a partially enclosed body of water that is home to several endangered species. In 2005 and 2006, Ventura County contractor Thomas Staben dumped 40,000 cubic yards of harmful materials - about 2,00 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Grow Your Own Mushrooms: Urban Farming in a Box

    Back to the Roots​Back to the Roots is the kind of grow-your-own mushroom kit company that makes you wonder what you've been doing with your life. Founders Nikhil Arorahe and Alejandro Velez first got the idea in 2009 during their last semester at UC Berkeley when, just two months before their ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2011

    Sleight of Green Hand

    Back to the Roots​Back to the Roots is the kind of grow-your-own mushroom kit company that makes you wonder what you've been doing with your life. Founders Nikhil Arorahe and Alejandro Velez first got the idea in 2009 during their last semester at UC Berkeley when, just two months before their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    EPA Orders Tire Plant on Indian Reservation in Coachella Valley to Clean Up, Reduce Fire Risk

    ​Less than a month after a potentially hazardous fire erupted at a tire recycling plant on Indian land in the Coachella Valley, federal environmental regulators have ordered the company, Consolidated Tire Recyclers, to clean up its act. Under the order, according to the Environmental Protection A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Feeling Taxed? Fines Increase For Leaving Extra Trash Out In Los Angeles

    .imelda via Flickr​ The city of Los Angeles continues to find new and inventive ways to essentially tax residents as it struggles to keep its budget in the black. City officials on Thursday warned residents that if they leave extra trash on the curb they could face newly increased fines of $50 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Compton Creek Cleanup OK'd

    Compton Creek, an eight and a half-mile trickle of water that miraculously runs through some of L.A. County's grimiest landscapes, is a significant step closer to receiving an ecological makeover. On Wednesday the County Board of Supervisors, prodded by South L.A. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, unan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    Trash Talking

    Just before dawn this morning I lay awake trying to talk myself into getting up. There would be, I promised myself, a newspaper waiting in the driveway, a choice of toast or bagel. My favorite coffee mug would be hanging from a hook. I may even turn the heat on. Then I heard it -- the shudder of an ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    August 28, 2008

    Wading in the Waste Stream With the Center for Land Use Interpretation

    On the bus to the dump

  • News

    July 17, 2008

    Antonio Pinocchiosa and His Police Tax

    The mayor gets caught with his hands in a $137 million cookie jar

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Living Like Ed

    The mayor gets caught with his hands in a $137 million cookie jar

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2007

    Sooo Trashy!

    What's goin on here you ask? Why it's our latest discovery, The Trash Band, who play only items found in dumpsters and waste bins. We caught the colorful ensemble at Lust For LACE, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition's annual Valentines party this past Saturday and let's just say recycling has n ... More >>

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    Green Without Envy

    Less space, more fulfilling

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    No Life Without Sunshine

    Antonio backs off a campaign promise to close hated Valley dump

  • Art+Books

    December 9, 1999

    Down the Tubes

    U.S. balks at European rule that manufacturers recycle toxic computers

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