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Oakland Launches New, Free Bulky Waste Pickup All Oakland residents can now schedule no-charge large item drop-off appointments with Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. (WMAC), and apartment tenants can now schedule curbside bulky pickup service directly with WMAC. Single-family househol...

Jeffery Liang, Senior Program Services Specialist, StopWaste, Alameda County

Councilmember Jane Brunner’s Community Advisory Meeting Writer’s Support/Critique Group Gardening for Wildlife Program Presented by the Aquatic Outreach Institute in partner- ship with Alameda County Waste Management Authority, Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, and the Calfed Bay-Delta Program. WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS SERIES: learn to landscape with native plants, improve/protect habitat for wildlife and protect wate...

A public hearing for Oakland residents is scheduled Thurs- day, April 28, 7 pm, at the Main Branch of the Oakland Public Library at 125 Fourteenth Street, to review and comment on the Draft County Hazardous Waste Management Plan. The Plan, submitted by the Alameda County Solid Waste Authority to the State last month, analyzes current patterns of hazardous waste ac- cumulation and projects these patterns to the year 2000. Special emphasis is place...

ship with Alameda County Waste Management Authority, with native plants, improve/protect habitat for wildlife and protect water quality; hands-on activities with professional landscape designers. 12:30pm at San Leandro Library i ¢ 2day volunteer work party with your loc...

Is there trouble in your garden of offered by Alameda County Waste Man-

...assle. No longer! Now there’s an environmentally friendly way to give the heave-ho to that bulky clutter. Two Rockridge residents, Arthur Boone and Ted Hilliard, have formed a new Oakland business, Total Recycling Center, with a grant from Alameda County Waste Management.

disposal facility is not terribly convenient, I called Waste Man­ agement to learn if they might come and do a collection in the neighborhood, if it was well organized. I was told that this was not possible and that neighbors could not bring other people’s waste along with theirs to the disposal site because the S...

free, self-guided tour is spon- sored by EBMUD, the Alameda Countywide Clean Water Pro- gram and StopWaste.org. It will include over 30 public and private gardens throughout Alameda County, showcasing natural gardening techniques. less work by Peralta’s staff and families, and generous contribu- tions from the ...

By Marge Gibson

This past year we barely maintained ourselves by taking advantage of one-time revenue sources, but we nevertheless suffered substantial budget blows. Some of these made the news — headlines proclaimed that Alameda County will receive reduced revenues to fight drugs next year, which will impact our police vice units. Some didn’t make the news. No one took note of the County of Alameda Solid Waste Management Committee decision ending cash payments to the City deri...

...site to provide free annual reports. It’s a good way to fight fraud and identity theft. — Robert Wiles We are aware that many items around our homes contain harmful, even toxic substances. However, what to do with this “stuff”? There is an Alameda County Household Hazardous Waste Disposal facility at 2100 East 7th Street, Oakland, off Highway 880 (23rd Street exit). Their website contains information about what can be brought in and hours of operation: http://stopwaste. org/home/index.asp?page=5...

By Cy Gulassa

and composting programs [that] divert 12 tons of waste per year from local landfills.” These business practices earned him the State Waste Reduction Program (WRAP) of the Year award, and certification as a Green Business by the Alameda County Department of Environmental Health. No, Waters does not rescue dam...

.... No problem doing the illustrations, he said, because “If you major in biology, you’d better be good at drawing.” “I had no idea that he wrote a book ll Oakland residents can schedule appointments to drop off large items, at no charge, at Waste Manage- ment of Alameda County (WMAC), and apartment tenants can now schedule curbside bulky pickup ser- vice directly with WMAC. Oakland Public Works (OPW) is reminding residents of the services available to them for disposing their unwanted bulky items...

...t left, converged on the park to work. Some of the kids have grown up playing in the park, others were visiting for their first time. In either case, the enthusiastic VBS campers picked up two huge bags of trash and filled eight paper greenwaste bags with leaves, grass clippings, and redwood duff, a fantastic result in only an hour and a half. Each year, CPAC brings the group to contribute much-needed maintenance during that long stretch between Earth Day and Creek to Bay Day. The job they did c...