Friends
OF THE
St. Petersburg Main Library
O C T O B E R 2 0 1 6 • 3745 9th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33713 • Visit www.splibraries.org
Where does your trash go once you throw it in the big black bin? What goes in the blue recycling bin? Jan Tracy, program coordinator for Pinellas County Solid Waste has all the answers. She’ll share them during Pinellas County Converts Waste to Energy, Saturday, October 15, at St. Petersburg Jan Tracy Main Library at 2 p.m. Pinellas County continues to be a superior environmental steward by supporting waste reduction and recycling efforts. The county has been recognized for having the highest recycling rate in the state of Florida, while St. Petersburg is also showing success in its residential recycling program. In September, 64% of city residents put their recycling carts out for collection at least once a month. The City of St. Petersburg began picking up curbside recyclables curbside in June 2015, making that program more than a year old. The items you place in your recycling bin are taken to Waste Connections of Florida, formerly Progressive Waste Solutions, 1190 20th
A Talk by Jan Tracy: CO N V ERT ING WAS T E T O EN ERGY Main Library Sat., Oct. 15, 2 p.m. St. North, where they are sorted and packed into bales of paper, plastic and metals, and sold to innovative companies that reuse these basic materials to produce new products.
This program has been successful in diverting tons of materials that previously would have been incinerated into new products. The items you place in your trash are
AT TH E M A I N L I B R A RY The St. Petersburg Main Library has the complete set of Peter Meinke’s publications because Friends of the Main Library bought them and presented them to the library. Peter Meinke was the first St. Pete poet laureate, then became Florida’s poet laureate, and still is!
burned in the three large incinerators at Pinellas County’s waste-to-energy facility. You can see the chimneys from I-275. The incineration process generates electricity, and what remains are ash and metals that do not burn. These metals are recycled as well. However, it is possible that we can have an even better impact on the environment if organic materials such as food wastes and plant clippings were composted. On Saturday, October 15, Jan Tracy from Pinellas Solid Waste Facility will show us where ”away” is
when we throw something away, and will shed some light on what more we can do in the future. Join us on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 at 2 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room for a presentation followed by Q&A and refreshments. Fr e e a n d o p e n t o the public. The Main Library is located at 3745 9th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33713.
The Friends of the St. Petersburg Main Library, established in 1961, recognizes the value of our great library and celebrates all it has to offer. Friends’ membership dollars and donations support the library’s outstanding collections, resources and programs — free and accessible to all. —1—