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M-PASS Corporate Celebrates Another Record Breaking Year
Pictured from right to left: Lorraine White, Glenda Durham, April Camp, Bill Camp, Rob Adams, Stephanie Adams, Keri Witherspoon and Chris Witherspoon
Food For Thought
We first raised the issue of food waste here around the end of June. The article presented a lot of the reasons why, according to a 2016 article in The Atlantic, America leads the way in food waste because “calories are cheap and people are picky.”...
15th Annual Synthetic Turf Council Membership Meeting
Is the (Artificial) Grass Always Greener? M-PASS’ Lorraine White is just back from Cleveland where she participated in the 15th annual Synthetic Turf Council (STC) Membership Meeting. The STC is the synthetic turf industry’s trade association, providing...
GRC 27th Annual Conference – 2018
In Mid-September, VP and General Manager Chris Witherspoon represented M-PASS at the 27th annual conference of the Georgia Recycling Coalition (GRC). The GRC has a mission to promote material reduction and enhance recycling programs throughout the state by...
The Clean Plate Club
Remember “The Clean Plate Club”? Turns out it wasn’t just something parents made up to admonish kids about not eating all the food on their plates. Its history goes back to 1917 when Herbert Hoover, America’s first Food Administrator, proclaimed “food will...
Break Out the Red, White & Blue (Tablecloths)
During the snow days, we were probably dreaming about summertime. And finally, Memorial Day – first official day of summer – is almost here. No matter how you observe Memorial Day – marching in a parade, visiting cemeteries or memorials – there’s bound to...
Happy Mother’s Day
Many of us may think of Mother’s Day as one of those “Hallmark Holidays” designed to encourage shopping. However, the earliest efforts to establish a day to celebrate mothers started before Hallmark existed. Celebrations of mothers and motherhood can be...
Rootin’ for the Earth – Part 2
We thought we might wrap up Earth Day 2018 with a few things that happened this year. Here’s a short list of what we’re reading … The We Are Still In coalition – the 2,700 U.S. organizations who have come together to show the world that we stand by the Paris Climate...
Rootin’ for the Earth
Editor’s Note: We thought you might appreciate a different perspective on Earth Day this year. So we asked Sugarfoot, our new M-PASS contributor, to share her thoughts about the importance of Earth Day 2018. Hi, I’m Sugarfoot. I’m pleased to root up...
Blue Sky 2018 – China Continues to Impact the World
In August, we talked about China’s changing import regulations on recyclable materials. That was just the beginning of a major adjustment in how the world has to deal with this issue in the future. Chinese authorities, increasingly concerned over the...