Recycling / Reuse

Networking and educational group for advocates and professionals interested in sustainability. The meeting is cancelled for February.

Earth Day celebration hosted by the city of Fort Worth, featuring educational booths, food and entertainment. Follows Cowtown Cleanup.

One of the largest Earth Day celebrations in the U.S., this annual free two-day festival showcases green vendors and organizations. Hours from 10 am to 6 pm. Parking is $10.

Class will cover complete rainwater harvesting system, including calculation, construction and drip irrigation. Free. Registration required. Space is limited but new places have opened up. http://dallas.tamu.edu/courses/2013/january-31,-2013-rain-water-harvest…

The city of Dallas will present the input from the early outreach meetings regarding its zero waste goals for 2040 and facilitate a discussion among the participants in order to provide recommendations to the City Council on the timelines included in the plan. The City Council will consider adopting the revised timelines at a City Council meeting in Spring 2013. Texas Campaign for the Environment is urging the public to attend in support of pushing forward a commercial recycling program, a single-use bag ordinance and municipal compost recycling.

The city of Dallas is hosting two public hearings, Jan. 7 and Jan. 8, to get feedback on the timeline to phase-in changes to achieve zero-waste goals for Dallas by 2040. Texas Campaign for the Environment is urging Dallas residents to appear to support speeding up plans to offer recycling for apartment dwellers and businesses, phase out single-use bags and start a compost recycling program. A follow up seminar will be held on Jan. 26. Also see http://www.texasenvironment.org/

The city of Dallas is hosting two public hearings, Jan. 7 and Jan. 8, to get feedback on the timeline to phase-in changes to achieve zero-waste goals for Dallas by 2040. Texas Campaign for the Environment is urging Dallas residents to appear to support speeding up plans to offer recycling for apartment dwellers and businesses, phase out single-use bags and start a compost recycling program. A follow up seminar will be held on Jan. 26. Also see http://www.texasenvironment.org/

Learn how to recycle your food waste, even meat and dairy, into food for the soil using a traditional Japanese fermentation practice. $5/residents, $8/nonresidents.

Learn how to recycle your food waste, even meat and dairy, into food for the soil using a traditional Japanese fermentation practice. Free.