The council approved a rezoning request Nov. 5 that will allow USA Metal Recycling to set up shop at 100 N. Morgan Road near Interstate 40. The approval changes the area’s rezoning from moderate industrial to a 23.5- acre planned unit development (PUD). The unanimous decision was reached despite written and verbal protests from area […]
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Gimme swelter
Kameron Davis at Melonbike Credit: Mark Hancock You probably knew that already. And I know we’ve all seen the attempt-at-artsy Instagram photos of car thermometers showing temps well north of 100. Sometimes it just feels better to share it. After all, we’re all in this hell together. Really, the only thing to do this month […]
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Junk it
• East Oak Landfill, 3201 Mosley; • Oklahoma City Landfill, 7001 S. Bryant; • Oklahoma Landfill, 7600 S.W. 15th; and• Northeast Landfill, 2601 N. Midwest Blvd., Spencer (construction and demolition materials only). Residents can drop off one load in a car or truck, up to a 1-ton and one trailer. No commercial waste haulers are […]
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A little blue
Mark Jordan Mark Hancock Municipal and waste workers are trying to raise that participation rate, in the meantime sorting through thousands of tons of materials every year. Ninety-two percent of Oklahoma City residences are eligible for curbside recycling pick-up, said Debbie Ragan, city utilities spokeswoman. That amounts to approximately 175,000 homes. The people who don’t […]
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Green on red
Hunter Magness Mark Hancock Higher learning has picked up the lessons of sustainability. At the University of Central Oklahoma, for example, a commonsense idea to make university leaders better stewards of tuition and tax dollars has become a campus-wide culture. “Somebody has to take a leadership role and see if these things work,” said Tim […]
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Green fests are best
But what happens to that cup after you’re done drinking from it or that paper plate you just finished eating off of? Two Oklahoma City festivals and their green committees are making sure that it all ends up in the right place. These committees are the Festival of the Arts Go Green Committee and the […]