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Traffic Update | Holiday Events
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Recycle Beverage Cans, Bottles
We are drinking more packaged beverages every
year in the United States.
In 2002 alone, we used 18 billion single-use cans and bottles. That’s two
per day for every person – man, woman and child. Half of the containers
are aluminum cans and the rest are plastic.
Recycling is more important than ever. And we are doing a great job with
aluminum cans; 75% of all aluminum cans are being recycled. Plastic is
another story, only 40% of plastic bottles are recycled.
We need your help to increase this rate, especially since more and
more beverages are being sold in plastic
containers, and it takes a substantial amount of
energy to produce plastic.
How can you help?
Get paid back for your efforts. Collect 4 cents
per bottle and 8 cents for
2-liter bottles on your drink containers, including water and juice
bottles.
While at home, work or on vacation, take the
time to recycle. Collect the containers and either place the containers in
your curbside recycling bin or take them
to a buyback center and get some money back.
Centers are located behind Whole Foods Market (Monterey), at Costco (Sand
City) and at
Nob Hill Foods and Safeway on Forest Avenue (Pacific Grove).
Let’s do our part. Save the planet; save money. Don’t let those bottles go
to waste.
For more info or other recommendations,
visit www.monterey.org/recycle
or call 646.5662.
Traffic Update
Traffic patterns are changing on Reeside and Dickman avenues.
Look for Reeside and Dickman avenues to become one-way streets between
Hawthorne Street and Lighthouse Avenue.
Holiday Events
- Christmas Tree Lighting
(all ages)
Dec. 3 – 6:30 p.m., free
Colton Hall (animals prohibited)
- Frosty’s Snow Adventure
(ages 3-5)
Dec. 11 – 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
$20 Monterey resident; $26 other
Casanova Oak Knoll Park Center
- A Trip to the North Pole
(ages 6-12)
Dec. 10 – 6 to 9 p.m.
$20 Monterey resident; $26 other
Casanova Oak Knoll Park Center
- Saturday Afternoon with Santa
(ages 3-8)
Dec. 11 – 2 to 4 p.m.
$15 Monterey resident; $20 other
Hilltop Park Center
Please note:
La Posada as well as the holiday display at the corner of Madison and
Pacific streets will not be presented by the City due to budget cutbacks.
Pick up the winter/ spring Activities Guide later this fall for info
on 2005 events, classes and activities or visit the Web at
www.monterey.org/rec
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