Glendale Citizens Can Go Green

Are you interested in finding out how you can reduce your carbon footprint? Do you want to know what the heck a "carbon footprint" is? The City of Glendale offers classes, tips and services to help Glendale citizens, business owners and visitors learn how to live more of a "green" lifestyle. Ride your bike instead of driving your car. If you can't carpool or utilize any of the Park and Ride centers in Glendale, check out the Valley Metro Public Transportation sytem or Gus Bus. Water conservation is a huge deal in our desert climate. Drought-resistent landscaping, sweeping dirt and grass cuttings from your driveways and sidewalks instead of using the hose and watering the lawn less often can go a long way in helping Glendale conserve its water consumption. Every single-family household in Glendale is issued a 95-gallon recycling bin for their home. This bin is part of Glendale's curbside recycling service and can be filled with paper products (magazines, newspapers, etc), cans (soda, beer, soup, etc), plastic containers (milk jugs, water bottles, soda bottles, etc) and cardboard boxes that have been removed of any packing materials and flattened (moving boxes, cereal boxes, cake mix boxes, etc). The City of Glendale wants to help its residents help keep Mother Earth beautiful.