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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.
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.
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)
America Recycles Day promotes and celebrates the proper ways to recycle and the importance of recycling. [1] [10] Each year there is a different theme for America Recycles Day, [2] and 2020's theme is individual action. [1] Keep America Beautiful celebrates the holiday by hosting and promoting recycling related events during the whole month of ...
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The city's original development plan called for the Tampa Convention Center to be built concurrently with a large hotel. However, financial difficulties and problems with developers caused this portion of the plan to be delayed until 2000, when the 27-story Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel, the city's largest at the time, opened less than a block away on Garrison Channel.
A former TD Bank employee based in Florida was arrested and charged with facilitating money laundering to Colombia, New Jersey's attorney general said on Wednesday, in the first such arrest since ...
Siesta Key is a barrier island with 5,500 residents about five miles south of Sarasota or 50 miles south of Tampa on Florida's west coast. It's just over 100 miles southwest of Orlando. It's just ...