Show Your Support for Recycling Dec. 15
This is an ACTION ALERT to keep our city’s Office of Environmental Quality funded and to expand curbside recycling. There are three simple things you can do to help. So far City Council has not seen that people care about recycling, but together we can change that. Here’s how:
1. Join us at this budget hearing. Help us get the word out and WEAR GREEN
6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15
Pleasant Ridge Recreation Center
5915 Ridge Ave.
2. Sign these two online petitions to City Council
Cincinnati Recycling petition
Ohio Citizen Action petition
3. Call these three council members:
Chris Bortz
Phone: (513) 352-3249
chris.bortz@cincinnati-oh.gov
Laure Quinlivan
Phone: (513) 352-5303
laure.quinlivan@cincinnati-oh.gov
Charlie Winburn
Phone: (513) 352-5354
charlie.winburn@cincinnati-oh.gov
And then e-mail every member of City Council, including Mayor Mallory, with the message below
Mayor Mark Mallory
Phone: (513) 352-3250
mark.mallory@cincinnati-oh.gov
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls
Phone: (513) 352-3604
roxanne.qualls@cincinnati-oh.gov
Jeff Berding
Phone: (513) 352-3283
jeff.berding@cincinnati-oh.gov
Y. Laketa Cole
Phone: (513) 352-3466
laketa.cole@cincinnati-oh.gov
Leslie Ghiz
Phone: (513) 352-3344
leslie.ghiz@cincinnati-oh.gov
Chris Monzel
Phone: (513) 352-3640
chris.monzel@cincinnati-oh.gov
Cecil Thomas
Phone: (513) 352-3499
cecil.thomas@cincinnati-oh.gov
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MESSAGE TO THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL
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Subject: TRASH IS CASH, Save Money, Recycle. Vote to keep the Office of Environmental Quality funded and expand curbside recycling
I: It would not be fiscally responsible to vote against expanded recycling. In fact it would be paying to throw money away
Fact: Rumpke says: 60% of trash is recyclable. Average value of 1 ton of recycled goods is: $75. WE pay $28 a ton to put these recycled goods in a landfill
II: Recycling Creates Jobs
Fact: According to the National Recycling Association: 10,000 tons of recycled goods = 35 jobs; 10,000 tons of trash going in a landfill = 2 jobs
III: Recycling Saves Money
Fact: Currently, more than 40 percent of eligible households participate in the city’s recycling program, diverting more than 12,000 tons from the landfill. With the implementation of an enhanced program, we could divert 37,000 tons of material from the waste stream each year, saving the city an estimated $4.6 million in tipping fees over the next 10 years. Fact: Implementing the enhanced recycling program would also help chip away at the city’s growing budget deficit, as it is projected to save the city $300,000 in 2010 over and above the cost of the program. Additionally, residents would have more than $200 in additional spending power each year, with the potential of injecting $20 million back in the local economy, by adopting the RecycleBank program in which retailers pay for discounts and free merchandise to be used as incentives for active recyclers.
I am not alone! I stand with the environmental movement across the City of Cincinnati. We must protect the education programs that teach kids about recycling, like those of the Cincinnati Parks, and protect the organizations and groups that teach Cincinnatians to seek cost saving efficiencies like recycling and energy reduction. Now is the time to value sustainability above waste.
Vote to Keep the Office of Environmental Quality funded and expand curbside recycling.
–Cincinnati’s Green Movement
