Documents Tagged ‘Recycling’


Clarifying the Record on Recycling

Archive Entry Date: 10/26/83

A glance into the complexities and tone of the 80's recycling wars

Berkeley Gets State Grant for Expansion

Archive Entry Date: 12/28/79

The multiplicity of organizations narrowed as recycling developed into an industry

Recycling Board Game

Archive Entry Date: 09/15/1979

Cliff Humphrey suggested that you take your Monopoly board game and re-purpose it

Kathy Evans Reflects on the Ecology Center

Archive Entry Date: c.1979

Kathy served as its head for two decades, overseeing a huge transition

Free Curbside Pickup Recycles Berkeley’s Old Newspapers

Archive Entry Date: 11/15/74

A year in, the Ecology Center struggled to keep running its newspaper recycling program

Waste Management Commission’s Recommendations for Recycling

Archive Entry Date: 3/8/73

The City of Berkeley calculated that newspaper curbside pickup was a good financial investment

Here’s How to Recycle at the Co-Op Center

Archive Entry Date: 05/72

Though Ecology Action's founders left Berkeley, others kept recycling alive in the city

Recycling Needs Your Help

Archive Entry Date: c. 1971-72

Ecology Action, "swamped" by recycling, asked the public to pressure the city for more resources

New Center at Grove St and Dwight Way

Archive Entry Date: c.1970-72

Flyer by mystery organization to "lighten load" on other site

Ecology Action News Release

Archive Entry Date: 10/20/70

Announcing the beginning of a new recycling center — in Modesto

Recycle and Bicycle

Archive Entry Date: 05/70

How to address the threat to the environment? Be a wise consumer and rethink waste

Contra Costa Recycling

Archive Entry Date: 1970

Seniors collect newspapers by hand in pickup truck

?Recycling?

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

A flyer from a parent-run recycling center at a school

Composting in the City

Archive Entry Date: 1970s

How to set up your own compost, according to Ecology Action

Newspaper Troubles

Archive Entry Date: c. 1969

With good reason, newspaper was the first to be recycled

College Students Dumping Litter Ceremoniously

Archive Entry Date: 5/6/69

DVC students hoped, at their Ecology Fair, to stir their fellow students' consciences

Early Recycling at UC Berkeley

Archive Entry Date: 1969

Young people learning how to sort reusable materials