Resource Recycling Magazine: NewsBits

## NewsBits

_By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling_

A [Kickstarter campaign](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1684960146/single-stream) for **a large-scale video project focusing on recycling, called "Single Stream,"** is close to reaching its $8,000 goal. The video project, which will be exhibited at the [Museum of the Moving Image](http://www.movingimage.us/) in Queens next spring, was shot in Casella's Charlestown, Massachusetts single-stream recycling facility. The artists describe the project as "a visual and sonic exploration inside one of the largest recycling processing plants in the U.S. [and] a reflection on the sheer magnitude of the waste that our society produces, the effort that goes into processing it and our responsibility in this cycle."

The **Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council Recycling Center** has received its **final eviction notice** from San Francisco, concluding an 18-month legal battle to keep the facility in the location it has occupied for 40 years, reports the [_San Francisco Examiner_](http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/11/haight-ashbury-recycling-center-receives-final-notice-vacant-golden-gate-park-property). "I thought they would wait until January," Ed Dunn, the recycling center's director, told the paper. **"Now we'll have a lot of people out of work for Christmas."**

Following passage of November ballot measure, the **Sacramento** City Council made some **broad changes to its curbside recycling** collection. According to _The Modesto Bee_, residents will now be required to have green yard debris bins and are [scaling back curbside recycling collection to every other week](http://www.modbee.com/2012/12/05/2482076/sacramento-council-scales-back.html).

In case you missed it, in the Recycled Products Buyer's Guide, above, we feature an **MP3 speaker** **made entirely out of recycled pulp**, no mean feat.&nbsp_place_holder; If that is too upscale for you, the Instructables website has a post showing [how to make paper speakers from scrap](http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Paper-Speakers-From-Scratch/) paper cups (Via [Lifehacker](http://lifehacker.com/5964972/diy-paper-speakers-turn-scrap-into-sounds)).

You've probably heard about Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large swath of the Pacific Ocean littered with plastic debris that has become trapped in rotating ocean circulation, but the Great Lakes have problems too. According to a [blog post](http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/11/the-great-lakes-have-more-garbage-per-square-inch-than-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/#.UL4xSRVZCb4.twitter) on Smithsonian.com, a new study has found that the **Great Lakes have more garbage per square inch than the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch**.

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