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Kalamazoo City staff outlines recycling and cleanup events, textile pilot and composting pilot
Summary
Justin, city sustainability staff, summarized recent outreach — a recycling demonstration at the Creamery, invasive species and riverbank cleanup (March 28), a plug-style downtown pickup (April 11), an April 25 electronics/textile recycling drop-off, a May 16 'Buzz in the Zoo' event with Audubon, and a June 9 scrap-tire drop-off; committee members were told composting pilot updates will be discussed at a county materials-management meeting.
Justin, identified in the meeting as city staff representing Kalamazoo City, briefed the committee on recent and upcoming sustainability outreach and service events.
What Justin reported: the city ran a recycling demonstration at the Creamery where recycling containers were distributed and residents were encouraged to improve apartment recycling rates; the city partnered with Michigan Waterway Stewards for invasive-species removal and trash cleanup along the Kalamazoo River on March 28 (from Mayor's Riverfront Park to the…
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