Steve Serafino ordinarily doesn't try to paper over problems, but he made an exception for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. ...more

October 31, 2009

It could be the ugliest spot on the Carrollwood Day School campus, but students in the school's new environmental club plan to make over a mucky, trash-clogged retention pond. ...more

February 4, 2009

Students at Trinity Elementary School, RESORCE Recycling Club and Accurate Waste Systems are teaming up to bring to the public's attention to America Recycles Day. ...more

November 5, 2008

More demand for recycled materials and better technology to process them have combined to raise Highlands County's revenue from its recycling operation to an all-time high. ...more

July 18, 2008

Paper recycling has come to town, thanks to a group of students at St. Anthony School. ...more

December 30, 2007

Support Proposed Landfill It has come to my attention that Pasco County is considering two different means of managing the county's increasing quantities of municipal solid waste (MSW). One is to expand the waste-to-energy facility (WTE). The other is to construct a materials recovery facility (MRF) and a bioreactor landfill for the residues. ...more

December 3, 2007

SEBRING – If the Highlands County recycling program makes the community environmentally "green," then the county is a lot greener today. For the first time in four years, the drop-off recycling program is again accepting office paper and junk mail. "That is good news that we want to get out there," said Christy Reed, recycling program manager. "It opens up new possibilities to glean more revenue and, of course, up our (recycled) tonnage," she said. "More importantly, it's keeping materials – natural resources – out of the landfill that otherwise would be lost forever." ...more

December 3, 2007

The creator of Winthrop Village will kick off several new "green" initiatives Thursday night with an art exhibit created from recycled products. ...more

November 14, 2007

Protected by white jumpsuits and gloves, researchers still couldn't avoid the odor. They wrinkled their noses Tuesday in the name of science. ...more

September 19, 2007