Tarrytown - July 2021 by Peel, Inc.

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JULY 2021

VOLUME 9 ISSUE 07

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IMPORTANT NUMBERS EMERGENCY NUMBERS EMERGENCY.................................................................... 911 Fire....................................................................................... 911 Ambulance........................................................................... 911 Police Department...............................................512-975-5000 Sheriff – Non-Emergency.....................................512-974-0845 Animal Services Office......................................................... 311 SCHOOLS Austin ISD...........................................................512-533-6000 Casis Elementary School......................................512-414-2062 O. Henry Middle School......................................512-414-3229 Austin High School..............................................512-414-2505 UTILITIES City of Austin......................................................512-494-9400 Texas Gas Service Custom Service..............................................1-800-700-2443 Emergencies......................................................512-370-8609 Call Before You Dig..........................................512-472-2822 Grande Communications.....................................512-220-4600 AT&T New Service...................................................1-800-464-7928 Repair............................................................1-800-246-8464 Billing............................................................1-800-858-7928 Time Warner Cable Customer Service..............................................512-485-5555 Repairs.............................................................512-485-5080 Austin/Travis County Hazardous Waste...............512-974-4343 OTHER NUMBERS Ausitn City Hall...................................................512-974-7849 Ausitn City Manager............................................512-974-2200 Austin Police Dept (Non Emergency)...................512-974-5000 Austin Fire Dept (Non Emergency)......................512-974-0130 Austin Parks and Recreation Dept........................512-974-6700 Austin Resources Recoovery.................................512-494-9400 Austin Transportation Dept..................................512-974-1150 Municipal Court..................................................512-974-4800 Post Office..........................................................512-2478-7043 City of Austin...........................................www.AustinTexas.gov

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TARRYTOWN WISHCYCLING “Wishcycling” is hoping that what you place in the recycling and composting bin is really recyclable. This has greatly contributed to recycling contamination and has led to many recycling markets, like China, no longer accepting recyclables from the United States. Wishcycling has become one of the recycling industry’s greatest challenges to date. When our recycling and compost streams become contaminated, the materials end up in the landfill. We have only one earth and there are only so many places to put our trash. We have to do better. HOW WE CAN DO BETTER • The most important thing is to know your community’s recycling rules. In Austin, we have a great website called “What Do I Do With…..” (http://www.austintexas.gov/what-do-i-do). This website will tell you how to recycle or compost many things. • As a trained Zero Waste Block Leader with The City of Austin, I am always available to answer your recycling and compost collection questions. Please email me at recycling@hpwbana.org. • WHEN IN DOUBT – THROW IT OUT! – This always seems difficult for serious recyclers to accept, but it is critically important to put questionable items into the trash rather than contaminate the recycling or compost stream. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: HOW DO I RECYCLE PVC PIPE? Habitat for Humanity accepts PVC pipe if it is at least three feet long. Shorter pieces must go into the trash cart.

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by Dena Houston CAN I USE COMPOST BAGS AS TRASH BAGS? Compost bags do not compost in a landfill. There is not enough heat in a landfill to make that happen. Also, compost bags are more expensive than trash bags and are not as sturdy. ARE WAX-LINED CUPS AND BOWLS RECYCLABLE? No, they are made of layers of materials that cannot be separated for recycling. These need to go into the trash cart. ARE CORNSTARCH PACKING PEANUTS COMPOSTABLE IN THE GREEN BIN? No, they are not. If they can be reused, that would be best. The official position from the City is that testing to be sure they are in fact compostable is difficult and industry labeling is not always reliable. To be sure the compost is not contaminated, these must go into the trash cart. DO PAPER ENVELOPES WITH PLASTIC WINDOWS AND TISSUE BOXES WITH PLASTIC FILM ON TOP GO INTO THE RECYCLING BIN? Yes, they can go into the blue recycling cart. However, they cannot go into the green compost cart. MY CART LABELS HAVE ALL FADED. HOW DO I GET NEW ONES? Austin Resource Recovery has a link for you to make your own cart labels. Go to https://www.austintexas.gov/page/sign-maker to print the labels you need. Here is a very informative City of Austin recycling website: http://www. austintexas.gov/what-do-i-do. Stay tuned for future tips that will include creative ways to recycle or reuse. If you have any questions, please send them to recycling@hpwbana.org.

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I looked across my living room the other day and noticed a green glob on the wall. I try to keep a fairly clean house so I was a little surprised to see this and wondered what the heck it was. I walked over for a closer look and realized it was a green tree frog! Now how did this little guy get in my house? I guess it doesn’t matter—I just had to get it out. Success. He’s now outside where he belongs. American tree frogs can be found around just about any body of water from Delaware to Florida, in the Gulf states, in Arkansas, eastern Texas, western Tennessee and Kentucky and parts of southern Illinois and Missouri. In Texas, their range is relatively small. They reside east of the I-35 corridor throughout the piney woods and coastal prairies ecoregions. The most interesting thing about the American green tree frog is that they can change color. When it’s resting and is cool, the frog will be gray in color. Once it warms up and is active, it turns vivid green. Male tree frogs are noisy little things. During mating season, March to October, they produce a nasal honk or bark which they repeat up to 75 times per minute. Their mating call is distinct from their other calls and is used to defend their territory or to announce rainfall. Rainfall is especially important to them since breeding takes place after a rain. After a male fertilizes a female’s eggs, she deposits the clutch in shallow water among aquatic plants. Depending on the area of the country, a clutch can be from 700 eggs to 2100! The eggs hatch in about a week and the tadpoles turn into frogs in about a month. When full-grown, they’ll only be about two and a half inches long. Tree frogs have interesting feet. They have sucker-like adhesive disks on the end of their fingers and toes which they need to aid in climbing and clinging to grasses and floating vegetation. Their diet consists of mosquitoes, flies, crickets, moths and other small insects. Tree frogs live in groups called an army or chorus. They are largely nocturnal and breathe through their skin. Cheryl Conley 6

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If you ask a tree company, “Are you insured?” the answer is almost always “yes.” That’s because all tree companies carry liability insurance (or at least they should), but very few carry workers’ comp insurance. The team at Good Guys Tree Service carries workers’ comp insurance because they not only protect your trees, but they also protect you. Out of the hundreds of tree companies in Austin, there are only several that carry workers’ comp insurance because Texas is only 1 of 2 states that does not require tree companies to carry worker’s comp insurance (Oklahoma is the other). Since it’s not required, many companies cut corners by not carrying it. So what does this mean for you? Did you know that if you hire a tree trimming company that doesn’t carry workers’ comp insurance, and there is an accident on your property, that the worker can turn around and sue you? This is huge when you are talking about people using chainsaws in trees performing one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. Since Good Guys Tree Service carries workers’ comp insurance, you as the homeowner are protected from liability if a worker is injured on your property. The liability insurance that the majority of tree companies carry will cover property damage on your property, but that doesn't cover any of the workers on your property. If a worker is hurt, they can turn around and sue you, the homeowner. When you hire Good Guys Tree Service to perform services on your property you can rest easy because you have zero liability. They insure your property and the workers on your property. Copyright © 2021 Peel, Inc.

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