Hey, Ed, I read your earlier post and share your frustration if not your conclusion. I write about Big D's overhauled trash pickup service in a column that runs in tomorrow's paper. This thing can work out fine as long...
Few daily-life topics are as freighted with emotion, politics, and disinformation as recycling: What ought to be a straightforward practical issue becomes just another left-versus-right battlefront. Here, glory be, is a carefully researched, fact-based analysis to the question: Does community-based...
No, my humble Chevy would definitely have to be hidden in a garage in Frisco's Stonebriar neighborhood. And though there's no HOA to require it where I live, I sure wish I could provide my truck with overnight accommodations in...
Those of you who have mastered separation of your regular garbage from recyclables may be interested to know the next step: Municipal composting of food waste. The LA Times reports that Los Angeles is fixing to launch a pilot program...
I was driving behind a DART bus on Wood Street in downtown Dallas this morning when I saw a City of Dallas advertisement that said something like: "Anyone can recycle. Even your abuelita can do it." I found myself nodding,...
A story in today's NYT reports our coastal cousin Houston has the worst record of any large U.S. city for recycling - a miniscule 2.6 percent of its total waste is diverted from landfills. A lot of factors play into...
Our city hall colleagues report that Dallas sanitation officials' are quietly pushing to cut the city back to once-a-week trash pickup. I don't know why this is such an explosive topic. Most human beings are at least as intelligent and...
Today's story about the gradual evolution of Dallas' recycling program contains a jewel of wisdom about voluntary altruism: It cannot be forced. Why more people do not grasp this fundamental axiom, I don't know. But hectoring, lecturing, and finger-wagging don't...
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