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8,660 – number of curbside recycling programs in 2006; 8,875 – number of curbside recycling programs in 2003; 95 – percentage of energy saved by recycling an aluminum can, compared with manufacturing a new one; 4.6 – pounds of trash per person per day (most in the world) 1.5 – pounds of recycled materials per person per day
Metropolitan Area Projects Plan (MAPS) is a multi-year, municipal capital improvement program, consisting of a number of projects, originally conceived in the 1990s in Oklahoma City by its then mayor Ron Norick. A MAPS program features several interrelated and defined capital projects, funded by a temporary sales tax (allowing projects to be ...
The Metropolitan Area Projects Plan 3, or MAPS 3, is a $777 million public works and redevelopment project in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma funded by a temporary voter-approved sales tax increase. The one-cent sales tax initiative began in April 2010 and ended in December 2017.
Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry touts its altruism and environmental stewardship by pointing to a voluntary levy that companies pay on their production, which is then used to clean up orphan ...
Manitoba: Manitoba's program was implemented in 2010 and is limited to beer containers, which are charged a deposit of CAD$0.10 or $0.20 depending on the size. Other containers (except milk) are charged a non-refundable $0.02 per unit levy (Container Recycling Fee) and can be recycled in municipal curbside recycling programs. [citation needed]
[3] [4] [5] [2] The park was founded in 1960, when the US Federal Government sold most of the former Oklahoma Ordnance Works to a public trust, the Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority. [6] The rural park covers 9,000 acres (36 km 2 ) and is located 47 miles (76 km) east of Tulsa, Oklahoma .
Midtown is located northwest of downtown Oklahoma City, surrounded by Automobile Alley to the east and Asia District to the north. It is home to St. Anthony's Hospital (the city's oldest and largest) and smaller communities like Church Row. It is a 387-acre (1.57 km 2) area with an estimated 3,501 residents.
The St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad-- later merged into the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway ("Frisco")-- built a line through Kellyville in 1898. [5] Oklahoma's worst train disaster took place just west of Kellyville on September 28, 1917, when two Frisco trains collided. Twenty-three people were killed and eighty injured.