Wedgwood Area Currently in 4th Place for $50,000 Prize

As reported earlier here and here, CleanScapes has an amazing competition that would bring a $50,000 prize to the neighborhood (collection area) that reduces its waste the most.  Based upon this article in the Queen Anne View, a sister blog of the Wedgwood View, the Wednesday North collection area which includes Wedgwood is in 4th place with a 3% reduction in total waste (garbage, yard, and recycling).  The Tuesday collection routes are currently leading with the Tuesday North collection route at -7.5% and Tuesday Central collection route at -6.8%. The competition still has a long way to go and we Read More …

Wedgwood Trailing Ravenna in $50,000 Prize

Many of you may have read that our friends at CleanScapes, who drive through our neighborhood in florescent green and orange trucks each Wednesday, has the Seattle Waste Reduction Rewards competition going on.  The service area that reduces their garbage, recycling, and yard waste the most gets $50,000 smack-a-roos!  According to Candy Castellanos with CleanScapes in this Seattle Times article; however, the greater Wedgwood area (Wednesday collection service area) is trailing the greater Ravenna neighborhood (Tuesday collection service area). The competition runs from September 2010 through September 2011, so there’s plenty of time for us to become more effective at Read More …

Bring $50,000 to Greater Wedgwood!

CleanScapes (you know, the folks in the bright green and orange trucks that collect our garbage on Wednesdays?), has an AMAZING competition going on at this very moment that each and every Wedgwoodian is part of.  It’s called the Seattle Waste Reduction Rewards!  What’s so great about this competition is that whichever community reduces its waste the most receives $50,000 smackaroos. Wedgwood and the other Wednesday collection communities (includes View Ridge and pieces of the Ravenna and Bryant neighborhoods) are competing against other collection communities for the prize. The winners for the 2009/2010 prize is going to building a new Read More …