How Can Hoboken Become More Environmentally Friendly?
Every week, Patch asks Hobokenites in the street one question. This week: how can we make Hoboken greener?
In honor of Earth Day, Patch is asking Hobokenites in the street how we can make the Mile Square a little greener.
Over the past week, Hobokenites have been planting trees and planting gardens. This week, You Said It asks people in the street how we can help the environment further. Some of the answers include composting, better education about recycling and switching from plastic to canvas shopping bags.
If you have any ideas on how to make Hoboken more environmentally sound, please comment below.
Video by David Jolkovski, interview by Claire Moses.
lynn danzker
9:16 am on Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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Nora Martinez DeBenedetto
9:26 am on Tuesday, April 19, 2011
right you are, pamela! thanks for the farmers' market shout out!!!!
also - i just read that you can get compost bins and rain barrels from the HCIA ----> http://www.hcia.org/docs/Compost_Bin_Rain_Barrel_Flyer.pdf
HBKN North
4:15 pm on Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The city should provide recycling bins on each corner, where the current un-labeled trash cans sit as well as all public building, and provide for paper, plastic, glass, and organic bins. The organics can go to compost while the rest get recycled.
p1ywood
10:48 pm on Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Washington Street sidewalk can and bottle recycling is a must at this point. Paper recycling there would be nice as well, but probably still a second tier effort at this point. Granted, an effort was made at sidewalk recycling bins about ten years ago and was ultimately a failure, I believe mostly because the mindset of the public wasn't there yet, and the municipal pick-up efforts were too sporadic.
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To the contrary, for example, however, currently and for the past 3 or 4 years, a tourist town like Point Pleasant is able to have an effective boardwalk pedestrian can and bottle recycling system, so hopefully the general public is ready for such a system here, and we as Hobokenites should demand this level of municipal recycling. Good call HBKN North. There is no reason a cosmopolitan, enlightened and caring town like Hoboken shouldn't be all over recycling efforts. We should be setting an example. I'll bet from Washington Street pedestrians alone 1000 cans and bottles end up not recycled a day. It's got to stop.
brando
4:44 pm on Thursday, April 21, 2011
never too green