(TALLAHASSEE, FL) – April 20, 2010 – A statewide plastic bag recycling awareness campaign called A Bag’s Life, which includes an interactive and educational website http://www.abagslife.com and mobile app with nearly 1,600 recycling drop-off sites by zip code, will be launched during Earth Day at the Capitol with the help of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Retail Federation and Florida Recycling Partnership.

The report, prepared independently by the environmental firm R.W. Beck, found that an estimated 229 million Americans, or 74 percent of the total population, have access to some form of curbside recycling at home. The data was complied through a broad national survery of local recycling officials. Curbside recycling makes it easier and more convenient for people to recycle - thus more likely to recycle.

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LAND O'LAKES — The Pasco County School District has won another honor for its conservation efforts. This time, it received the first ever Governor's Serve to Preserve: Green School Award, besting other finalists from Pinellas and Charlotte counties.

Coke's largest US bottler has created a subsidiary dedicated to recycling beverage containers, with the goal of recycling 100% of bottles and other materials used to package its beverages. Also trying to reduce water used to produce its drinks, but does not focus on alternative sources, such as recycled rain water, or desalination processes.

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The Pride of the Sun-Shine & The Sound of the Gator Nation: The 2009 Gator Band performing its environmental awareness halftime show at the UF vs. Tennessee game at the swamp.

Five Long Island beverage dealers are among seven people who have been arrested as part of an elaborate scam to re-redeem bottle deposits at 7 cents a clip.

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Alachua County's waste management system is getting a makeover. Beginning Oct. 1, trash will be picked up Monday through Thursday instead of Monday through Friday, under a seven-year contract approved by the Board of County Commissioners Tuesday.

Despite years of work, a new curbside recycling program in Pinellas County remains no closer to making its first pickup. Some Pinellas County commissioners have begun to question the wisdom of adding an expensive service when budget cuts have forced deep reductions in parks, health care for the poor, and law.

Tailgaters at the State Fairgrounds parking lot are being encouraged to keep it clean this football season. And Keep the Midlands Beautiful is going to help them.