What's New

December 2008

Flyer: "You've Changed Your Light Bulbs, So What's the Next Step?"

This flyer suggests practical actions you can take to reduce your carbon footprint. The actions are focused on:

• Electricty Use
• Appliances
• Heating/Air Conditioning
• Water Usage
• Waste Reduction
• Transportation
• Purchasing

Actions are categorized as "try something easy", "step it up" and "challenge yourself" and a list of household actions, their costs and related CO2 reductions is provided. Plus, we've included a list of web resources for additional informaton, like calculating your carbon footprint, free energy audits and Utilities rebates.

There is an action for everyone, so no matter whether you are just now starting to reduce your carbon footprint or are a seasoned carbon-reducer, this flyer's for you.

Please share it with a friend or neighbor.

October 2008

Reduce garbage to landfills and save money with the mini-can garbage service

• Graph illustrating the type of garbage service residents (17,640 customers) have, from mini-cans to more than 5 cans. If every residence reduced their garbage and switched to a mini-can (20 gallon) service, they would save $ every month and approximately 537,500 less pounds of garbage would be landfilled.

  • If you have reduced your garbage by reducing, reusing and recycling, a mini-can can be ordered by calling PASCO at 493-4894. There is no additional cost for the PASCO mini-can. PASCO, at no additional cost, will deliver a black, 2-wheeled, 32 gallon garbage cart containing an insert that reduces the cart volume to 20 gallons.
  • The cart must be wheeled to the curb on your garbage collection day.
  • The cost of the mini-can level of garbage service is $20.97/mo. which is $5.61 less per month than one-can garbage service.