All Posts Tagged With: "Earth Day"

The MTA: What Are You Going to Do, Walk?

The MTA, the people who brought you “The Next Brooklyn-bound L Train Will Arrive in Two Minutes” announcements only a decade or two after such systems became standard in the Old Country are not letting the Euros beat us in recycling, either. From Paris to Shanghai, most major transit systems in the past 10 years have installed separate bins for paper, glass, plastic, and even organic vs. non-organic waste. A few weeks ago, large stickers appeared on every single one of the black bomb-resistant garbage cans lining the platforms. “Can it for a Greener Planet!” they read. Could it be Apparently the stickers, the number or printing cost of which the MTA did not disclose, were a public service reminder – that they already recycle.

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8May2008 | Alex Padalka | 1 comment | Continued

MTA’s Limited Edition MetroCards to Celebrate Earth Day

The MTA announced yesterday that five million green MetroCards will be issued starting on Earth Day, April 22. The limited edition cards will have a list of environmental facts on the back and will be dolled out via MTA vending machines. Ironically, the MetroCards themselves won’t be recyclable, though the MTA did admit at a news conference Monday morning at Grand Central Station that it may be time to move to a more earth-friendly material for the cards. The green MetroCards are meant to draw attention to the MTA’s new sustainability initiatives, which are the result of recommendations from a panel on renewable energy.

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14Apr2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued