Hooray! Pumpkin Recycling is Back

You can recycle pumpkins (without candles), corn stalks, straw and hay from seasonal displays for free at one of Ramsey County’s seven yard waste collection sites. This service is open to Ramsey County residents only (a photo ID is required). Through November 2010.
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Ramsey County PH
www.co.ramsey.mn.us

Midway Yard Waste Site Hours
March 29 – November (weather permitting)
Monday | 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Tuesday | CLOSED
Wednesday | 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursday | CLOSED
Friday | 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Saturday | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday | 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Website to get off of the mailing lists for credit card offers, magazine subscriptions, & catalogs

Tired of all those trees coming through your mailbox only to be recycled right away? Then you will LOVE this website to get off of the mailing lists for credit card offers, magazine subscriptions, catalogs, and 'other' mailings.

DMAchoice is a mail preference service offered by the Direct Marketing Association.
www.dmachoice.org

Story of Electronics

HMEG members shared the original "Story of Stuff" a while back. They have new chapters now, including Story of Cosmetics, and now Story of Electronics!

The Story of Electronics, released on November 9, 2010 takes on the electronics industry’s “design for the dump” mentality and champions product take back to spur companies to make less toxic, more easily recyclable and longer lasting products.

Opt out of receiving phonebooks

There is a great new website that allows you to opt out of receiving phonebooks from different companies. I end up with over five phonebooks every year that I never use, so I am very excited to stop receiving them (and to save a few trees and other resources)!

All you need to do is visit the following website and follow the instructions for the different companies that send you phonebooks. It only takes a couple of minutes! 


http://www.donttrashthephonebook.org/.