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OKALOOSA COUNTY - Many people all across the gulf coast spent the day being environmentally friendly.
Tomorrow is America Recycles Day, but many people got a head start this morning.
People brought in aluminum cans, plastic containers, cardboard boxes, telephone books, and many other recyclable items to help support green awareness.
The Ronald Macdonald House was trying to break a Guinness World Record for the most cans collected in an eight hour period.
"The whole idea is to educate people on the benefits of recycling. For us, we're out here to educate people on the existance of our househole hazardous waste program. We have fliers to give to folks because we not only do it in one day events like this, we collect every week in okaloosa county for all residents."
They also collected household hazardous waste... Such as paint, pesticides, pool chemicals, car batteries and much more.
Today's event was sponsored by the City Of Fort Walton Beach, The Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber Of Commerce, the Ronald Mcdonald House, and the Okaloosa County Recycling office.Recycling In Fort Walton Beach
Tomorrow is America Recycles Day, but many people got a head start this morning.
People brought in aluminum cans, plastic containers, cardboard boxes, telephone books, and many other recyclable items to help support green awareness.
The Ronald Macdonald House was trying to break a Guinness World Record for the most cans collected in an eight hour period.
"The whole idea is to educate people on the benefits of recycling. For us, we're out here to educate people on the existance of our househole hazardous waste program. We have fliers to give to folks because we not only do it in one day events like this, we collect every week in okaloosa county for all residents."
They also collected household hazardous waste... Such as paint, pesticides, pool chemicals, car batteries and much more.
Today's event was sponsored by the City Of Fort Walton Beach, The Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber Of Commerce, the Ronald Mcdonald House, and the Okaloosa County Recycling office.Recycling In Fort Walton Beach
• IN FLORIDA NEWS
Freeze damages 4 percent of Fla. oranges
February 09, 2010 09:14 EST
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Florida citrus growers lost more than 4 percent of their orange crop and more than 3 percent of their grapefruit crop during last month's freezing weather.
A citrus forecast report released Tuesday puts Florida's orange crop in February at 129 million boxes, down from the estimate of 135 million boxes in January. Each box weighs about 90 pounds.
The grapefruit crop estimate for February is 18.8 million boxes, down from 19.5 million boxes in January.
If these estimates don't change, Florida's orange crop will be 21 percent smaller than last season's crop and the grapefruit crop will be 13 percent smaller.
Florida is the nation's largest orange producer. The bulk of the state's fruit is used to make orange juice.
Saturday, November 14 2009, 09:33 PM EST
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• BUSINESS NEWS
Dow below 10,000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street begins trading today with the Dow Jones industrials below 10,000 for the first time in three months.
• CONSUMER INFO
Toyota checking 2010 Prius brakes; mum on recall
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TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) -- Toyota USA says it is evaluating brake problems with the 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid, but no decision has been made about a recall. ...
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TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) -- Toyota USA says it is evaluating brake problems with the 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid, but no decision has been made about a recall. ...
• SCIENCE/TECH NEWS
IN THE NEWS: COLORADO SEEKS TO COLLECT ONLINE SALES TAXES
DENVER (AP) -- It's the latest in a long line of efforts to get people to pay taxes on online sales -- this time, being tried by lawmakers in Colorado.
• GET THIS
STRIP CLUB RAISES MONEY FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- This is a charity effort that, we presume, raised more than just money for a good cause.
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