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America Recycles Day, also known as National Recycling Day, is a national observance in the United States dedicated to promoting recycling across the nation. Observed on November 15th every year, the observance is the signature recycling program of Keep America Beautiful [1] (KAB), the managing and promoting organization for the holiday.
The recycling rate in Florida is estimated at 28% in 2000. [47] The county with the highest recycling rate is Lee County, with a 43% recycling rate as of 2008. [48] Florida's Energy, Climate Change, and Economic Security Act of 2008 set a goal of progressively improving recycling to reach a 75 percent rate by the year 2020.
The Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility is expected to burn 440,000 tons of waste this year, nearly 100,000 more than usual. (Octavio Jones for NBC News)
Florida's 18 million residents (21 million as of 2020) and 80 million visitors generated over 32 short tons (29 t) million of solid waste in 1859. [25] Increasing landfill space has been an issue. In 1959 landfill space cost about $400,000 per 1 acre (0.40 ha). [25] In 1859, the state had the goal of recycling 75% of its waste by 1869.
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Two months after the NAACP issued a formal travel advisory for Florida, two major Black organizations are moving their conferences elsewhere, and advocates hope the momentum will carry over to ...
Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Brevard County, Florida. Al Neuharth of the Gannett corporation started the paper in 1966, and some of the things he did with this newspaper presaged what he would later do at USA Today .
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