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July 11, 2003
Environmental Entrepreneurialism
Derek just told me about this friend of his who started a recycling pick-up company in Mammoth. The City of Mammoth Lakes has its own recycling program, but its a real sore sport in this town. They require you sort everything yourself meticulously, or they won't touch it. Only certain types of glass, only certain types of plastic, etc... Money from our recycling efforts was supposed to go to the school, but never has. There's rumor that a lot of our recycling just gets thrown away and not recycled as they do not want to sort through it.In comes this friend of Derek's. For $18/mo, he'll pick up your recycling biweekly. He gives you a container and you don't have to sort it yourself at all. Just throw all your plastics, glass, etc... into his bin and he'll pick it up. I had almost given up on recycling in this town because of how difficult they make it, but now that this service is here, I'm willing to pay a little to have it done right. Its exciting to see people coming up with business ideas that are also community driven. Steve S. would call it social business. I'm sure we'll see more of this.
Posted by wonko at July 11, 2003 12:09 PM
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