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Nancy Stone looks back on four decades of Ann Arbor recycling and composting work
Summary
Nancy Stone, an environmental educator long connected to City of Ann Arbor programs, traces the city’s recycling, composting and hazardous-waste initiatives — from late-1980s landfill concerns and a 1990s environmental bond to year-round curbside composting and a sharps-return program.
Nancy Stone, introduced on FYI as an environmental educator who worked with the City of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County, described more than four decades of local efforts to expand recycling, composting and safe disposal programs.
Stone recalled campus Earth Day activity in the early 1970s as an early spark for environmental awareness. She said community meetings in the late 1980s responded to a landfill shortage and produced a solid-waste plan that helped win a 1990s environmental bond. That bond, she said, funded expanded curbside collection, a recycling plant and a compost center that allowed the city to scale services beyond early drop-off…
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