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Battle Creek reports large recycling turnout, expands tree-planting grants and projects
Summary
Committee members reported results from a March recycling event and described multiple tree-planting grants and partnerships, including a 1,600-tree planting effort along Jackson Street and grants to plant 93 larger trees at the wastewater treatment property.
Members of the Sustainable BC Committee on April 28 recounted recent community recycling and tree-planting efforts and described grants that will fund additional plantings across the city.
Patty Hochmel, an environmental department employee for the City of Battle Creek, summarized a March 22 electronics and polystyrene recycling event, saying, “We ended up collecting 17,400 pounds of electronics and 1,130 pounds of styrofoam, and only oh, over 300 cars…
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