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Land Get-together

Land Get-together. Overview. Overview CPS Recycling Overview - Special Guests Presentation and Q&A on “Land” Issues Overview of Waste Surveys Overview of Projects (in 2 groups) Wrap-up Tour of grounds (optional). Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation.

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Land Get-together

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  1. Land Get-together

  2. Overview Overview • CPS Recycling Overview - Special Guests • Presentation and Q&A on “Land” Issues • Overview of Waste Surveys • Overview of Projects (in 2 groups) • Wrap-up • Tour of grounds (optional)

  3. Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation

  4. “Land” Issues: Resources & Challenges

  5. Resources & Challenges Parks & Forest PreservesWhere are they? Chicago Park District Created 1933 Over 7,000 Acres Forest Preserves Created 1916 Over 68,000 acres (11% of Cook County)

  6. Resources & Challenges Parks & Forest PreservesWhat are their benefits? • Environmental Benefits • Keeps water on-site • Conserves biodiversity & provides habitat • Water/Air quality • Community Benefits • Community involvement through stewardship & monitoring • Environmental education • Recreation • Meeting spaces Forest Preserve Stewardship Day

  7. Resources & Challenges NEW MAP: Chicago Parks, Forest Preserves Community GardensWhere are they? • Vacant Lots • Schools • Community Centers • Parkways

  8. Resources & Challenges Community Gardens& Vacant LotsWhat are their benefits? • Ecological • Financial – direct and indirect • Sociological – individual and community • Beautification and recreation • Educational • Encourages community development • Provides opportunity for physical work • Resource for local organizations and groups

  9. Resources & Challenges Waste ManagementWhat are the Options? US EPA

  10. Resources & Challenges Waste ManagementWhere Does Chicago’s Trash Go? • Only one active landfill within city limits • Landfills in southeast Wisconsin, central Illinois, northwest Indiana • In 2003, 57% of all of Chicago's waste was recycled or composted

  11. Resources & Challenges Waste ManagementWhat are the Challenges? • Landfills: • NIMBY • Methane and leachate • May fail eventually • Very slow decomposition • Combustion: • Produces fly ash that must be landfilled • May release toxins into air • Recycling and composting: • Not everything can be recycled or composted • Reduction and reuse are even more efficient

  12. Benefits of Recycling Uses less energy during manufacturing Reduces emissions of 10 major air pollutants, including greenhouse gases Reduces need to harvest and transport raw materials Creates jobs Saves money Improves health Reduces 8 major water quality indicators and pollutants Reduces landfill waste

  13. Solutions Benefits of composting: • Improves soil • Improves structure, porosity, and density • Reduces erosion and runoff • Increases water use efficiency • Proves plant nutrients and improves chemical content • Provides beneficial micronutrients • Suppresses plant disease • Reduces methane and acidic leachate that form when food scraps are sealed in landfills • Helps remediate soil, air, and water contaminated with hazardous waste

  14. Solutions: What You Can Do

  15. Solutions Volunteer • Stewardship Days • C3’s Explorer Track events: www.cityofchicago.org/Environment/C3 or 312-743-9283 Forest Preserve Stewardship Day Plant Your Garden Green • Plant native! • Greencorps assistance Black-Eyed Susan

  16. Solutions Reduce, Reuse, RecycleRe-think, Re-design, Re-claim… • Plastic, paper, glass, metal and yard waste – blue bags • Batteries – Walgreens and libraries • Household hazardous chemicals and electronics – new site and collection days • Food scraps – compost • What else? Get creative!

  17. Solutions Strive Towards Zero Waste • The amount of waste generated per capita continues to rise, despite increased recycling • Need to reduce or eliminate waste at the source

  18. Solutions City Recycling Initiatives • The Blue Bag Program • Recycling Pilot Program • Other city Programs • Batteries • Household hazardous waste – new facility • Construction and Demolition Ordinance

  19. History and Big Picture - Recycling City Composting Activities • Recycling Grants • distributed 1200 reduced price compost bins • 300 tons of organic material saved from entering the waste stream annually • 18 Master Composters • 4 Compost Education Centers • Educational materials

  20. Conservation Club Land Survey and Projects

  21. Survey and Project Waste Surveys: 2 - 3 meetings Option 1 – Messier and more precise! • Prep: pick sites, inform maintenance staff, make labels, post signs the day before or first thing in the morning • Implement: Weigh, sort, and record! • Follow-up: Extrapolate, think about consequences and solutions Option 2 – More efficient! • Prep: pick sites, inform maintenance staff, make labels, post signs the day before or first thing in the morning • Implement: Observe and record! • Follow-up: Extrapolate, think about consequences and solutions

  22. Survey and Project Projects: 2 - 4 meetings plus on-going maintenance • 4Rs stay here with Suzanne and Joyce • Vermicomposters go to corner with Sarah

  23. Wrap Up What’s Next? • October – December: • Implement Waste Survey and Land Service Project • We will send you Air & Energy project guides • By December 15th at 4pm: • Inform us of Air & Energy service project choice • Thursday, Jan 18th (5pm-6:30pm) • Air & Energy Get-together (includes reporting on Land survey and project)

  24. Wrap Up Wrap Up- Invoices- Survey materials- Tour- Feel free to hang around after tour- Questions?See you in January!

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