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Follow Up to Going Green: New Curbside Recycling Program - St Petersburg, Florida

I spoke with Ian Boyle, who is the Government Affairs Manager at Waste Services Inc, who said that they are doing the best that they can to handle the large number of residents interested in the Saint Petersburg New Curbside Recycling Program. 

You can contact WSI directly or the St Petersburg Utility Div, who will take your name and number and pass it to WSI directly about the St Pete residential recycling program that launched today.  Here is part one of this article Going Green: St Petersburg New Curbside Recycling Program

Or you can fill out the form below and it will be email directly to WSI customer service department.  (Note, click on the image hosted on my off site server to get to the form.  Fill it out and it will transfer over to WSI directly.)

Going Green: The New Curbside Recycling Program - Clearwater, Florida

One of the integral parts when you Buy a Home in Saint Petersburg, Florida is The New Curbside Recycling Program - Saint Petersburg, Florida.  Recycling of glass beer bottles, milk jugs, plastic water bottles (my weakness), newspapers, office paper, cardboard from frozen dinners and snacks is an essential part in helping the enviroment.  In fact, did you know that you can even recycle styrofoam?

The newest residential recycling program started today in Saint Petersburg, Florida.  Pinellas recycling programs have been integrated into Saint Petersburg, Florida starting October 1st.

Unfortunately, not everyone knows about it yet.  There are approximately some 80,000 potential Saint Petersburg Recycling customers that could participate in the Saint Petersburg Recycling program.  However, according to semi official estimates, only 800 have signed up so far.  In fact, just today, the new "Going Green" reminders are being included in today's utility bills being mailed to 80,000 potential Saint Petersburg Recycling customers today.

The reason for the lack of major advertising for the new Saint Petersburg Recycling Program, The New Curbside Recycling Program in Saint Petersburg, Florida is that the contract was just finalized last week with WSI.  This according to Bay News 9.  However, personally, I could not find anywhere to sign up at and the number of the company handling the contract is eternally busy.  I shudder to think what will happen when more and more people want to sign up for the program, but cannot!

Waste Services International will be handling the pick up of standard residential recycling materials in the Going Green: The New Curbside Recycling Program - Saint Petersburg, Florida. The cost of this service, according to the local news website is approximately $33 per year.  According to the same article, it is expected that only 31% of Saint Petersburg Residents will sign up for the new residential recycling program in Clearwater, Florida.

Here are some facts about recycling

Approximately 360 pounds of paper consumed in 2007 was recycled per person
Approximately 1 Ton of paper  saves 17 trees, 7k gallons of water, 3 yards (3) of landfill, along with enough oil and electricity to power an average American home for five months
Approximately 1-1/2 tons of materials used for construction comes from recycled paper each year
There is enough energy saved to run a computer (3 hours), or a TV (2 hours) or to power a 100 watt light bulb (20 hours) in a single recycled aluminum can 
Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the entire US Air Fleet and enough iron/steel to supply the US Automakers on a continious basis

(Read More about the statistics of recycling and how much we throw away, which is where I got the above statistics from at http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html)

 I tried personally to call the WSI local office, however, there was no live person to take a call.  In fact, in the four times that I called, I eventually got disconnected all four times due to the overwhelming call volume.  You can send an email to this WSI Email address, which I found on the local WSI website.

Bay News 9 originally aired a video about this today, but they are reporting that this is also for Clearwater.  I have not been able to confirm whether this holds true.  However, you can find information based on each city for Pinellas County Recycling Programs.  (Pinellas Recycling Information)

============HERE IS PART TWO, AND ANSWERS OF HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH WSI===========

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