“On balance, our ordinance would significantly reduce the amount of pollution, waste and greenhouse gases created to help county residents carry their groceries out of the store.”
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6 takeaways from the downtown safety update
At a Downtown Commission meeting July 14, Assistant City Manager Rachel Wood said that portions of the 60-day downtown safety and cleanliness pilot have transitioned into ongoing services.
‘Purple bag program’ for homeless seeks to address litter
Among the complaints Asheville residents have about their city, litter is one that most can agree on. A new pilot program initiated this spring by the city Public Works Department seeks to address an underserved population by the city’s Sanitation Division services: people who are unhoused.
Cleanup time: Local governments and nonprofits tackle WNC’s filth
“We’ve pretty much been doing cleanups for 50 years without really seeing any real changes,” says Asheville GreenWorks’ operations manager Chelsea Adams. “We go back to the same roads, in the same section of river and creek, every single year and do cleanups over and over and over.”
Thinking green: Kudos to the city
Jane L. Laping is a member of Asheville GreenWorks’ Oakley TreeKeepers.
Letter: Let’s reduce litter’s hidden danger
“I think the N.C. Department of Transportation and North Carolina prison system should put minimum-security prisoners back out on the roads and streets to pick up litter.”
Letter: More trash cans needed along river
“The trash receptacle availability every 5 miles or so along the French Broad walks and parks is woefully inadequate.”
Spring clean: Asheville organizations, volunteers clean up downtown
After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of Asheville was due for a spring cleaning. City government, along with area nonprofits, kicked off the first of four community cleanup efforts downtown April 18.
To the Max
Letters: Stop littering and save our planet!
“We are throwing trash out our windows; the trash is going in streams, which goes in a river and then the ocean. It kills turtles, dolphins, fish, seals and seabirds.”
Letter: Litter can be deadly to wildlife
“We can protect wildlife by rinsing jars and replacing the lids, folding back the tab on beverage cans to block the hole, crushing cans before recycling them and cutting apart every section of six-pack rings.”
The gross is always greener
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Don’t give political power to litter and rats
“At the unconsciousness rate we are polluting our planet and the threat of nuclear annihilation by our militaristic world leaders, vermin will probably inherit Earth soon enough.”
Letter: Citizens should take charge and get it done
“We should teach our kids zero tolerance for polluting in any form, anywhere. Lead by example.”
Letter: On Earth Day, do something real
“For this upcoming 48th Earth Day, I encourage people to pick up roadside litter near your neighborhood. The date is April 22, a Sunday.”
Letter: Slowing gentrification via litter
“I hope very much that the shirt I have been wearing almost daily to the soup kitchen is helping slow gentrification.”
Letter: Keep Asheville clean
“The amount of litter and cigarette butts strewn everywhere is not to be believed.”
A hole new world
Asheville
Letter writer: Law needed for trash problem
“I feel the best solution is for the city, county or state government to impose and enforce a law on property, home and business owners to routinely clean up around their property, including the sidewalk and street.”
Letter writer: Turning trash into cash
“Do we not see this trash and how it impacts everyone’s quality of life or do we just not care? Let’s begin to see the trash, and then ask for better for our city, our families, our guests and ourselves.”
Letter writer: Don’t let litter go to the dogs
“As residents of Asheville, let’s be proud of our city and stop acting like cigarette butts and chewing gum are not litter — they are!”