Yanks Plan Green Parade but Phils’ Win would have been Greener

According to a piece in NY1 news, the Yankees are going green with their victory parade:

Atlas Materials in Red Hook, Brooklyn is donating recycled confetti strips for the Yankees parade down the “Canyon of Heroes” in NY’s financial district.  They say parades these days are much more environmentally friendly than ticker-tapes of the past.

“What we’re doing here today is taking 1,200 pounds of shredded, recycled paper to be delivered to the buildings of Lower Manhattan to start the process of what kind of paper should be thrown from the windows tomorrow. It will all be cleaned up by the sanitation department and recycled yet again. So this is going to be a green parade,” said John Cioffi of Atlas Materials.

From the looks of this pic, lots of New Yorkers will be emptying their waste baskets as well.  Wonder if that stuff will be recycled too.  All in all, good news, but small consolation for Phils fans.   Next year, if the Phillies win, there would be no ticker tape parade in NY at all, just a good ol’ fashioned Philadelphia parade.  Now that would be the most environmentally friendly thing of all.  So, wait ’till next year!

The Greening of Mount Airy Day.

Monday April 21st was the date of the monthly “Sustainable Mount Airy” Board Meeting.

The hot subject on the agenda was what to do about the neighborhood Spring Fair whose organizers had not planned any recycling for the recyclable empty containers from food and drinks consumed by Fair visitors. And we had two weeks to go until the day of the Fair.

Something amazing happened: moved by the determination of five key people, the group figured out a way to redistribute the 40 cardboard trash containers made available by the City of Philadelphia to allow for trash containers and enough recycling bins for paper, plastic, alumminum and glass. After that it was a matter of figuring out signage, pickup of the recycling collected and volunteers to help guide fair visitors to the most appropriate container. The whole discussion took 20 minutes.

Here is Meenal’s account of what happened on Mount Airy Day Fair. Do read it to the end, that is when the surprise occurs:

The Eco Friendly Junk Removal

A group of entrepreneurial West Philly young people launched The PedalCoop.
The simple brilliant idea of the PedalCoop is to offer recycling items removal services using bicycle propelled trailers. The PedalCoop combines one of the most energy efficient mode of transportation, yes – that is the bicycle, with Recycling.