From a story on LAist.com:  

A bill for a statewide ban on single-use plastic shopping bags is up for consideration, backed by Los Angeles-based state senator Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima).

SB 405 “would phase out single-use plastic bags in California grocery stores, convenience stores, liquor stores, and pharmacies,” according to Padilla.

“SB 405 will help protect our environment by phasing out single-use plastic bags in California. Single-use plastic bags fill our landfills, clog inland waterways, litter our coastline, and kill thousands of fish, marine mammals and seabirds,” said Senator Alex Padilla in a release posted to his site.

If passed, the ban would take effect January 1, 2015 at grocery stores and pharmacies. In July 2016, convenience stores and liquor stores would be required to meet the same standard. SB 405 would not pre-empt local ordinances already in place governing limitations on single-use plastic bags.

The proposed legislation made progress Wednesday, when the Senate Environmental Quality Committee today approved the bill. The bill remains pending in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

I’ve long been a big proponent of using reusable grocery bags to limit trash and clutter. Using reusable grocery bag also help protect our natural resources and limit our oil consumption. So if you haven’t invested in reusable grocery bags yet, time to do so. 

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Space junk is a growing problem for both NASA and private space agencies that launch satellites into space. Space junk is basically the leftovers from 50 years of space exploration. Ideally, space junk eventually burns up in Earth’s atmosphere. But a lot of space junk doesn’t lose orbit and instead remains a threat to satellites and space craft. 

But according to Huffington Post one company is thinking about space junk removal:

 

By: Leonard David 
Published: 03/04/2013 05:08 AM EST on SPACE.com

A proposed space-junk removal system would hop from one piece of debris to the next without burning much fuel, potentially making a de-clutter mission economically feasible with current technologiy.

The TAMU Space Sweeper with Sling-Sat, or 4S for short, would harness the momentum imparted by capturing and ejecting one object to slingshot on to the next chunk of space junk, its developers say.

“The goal of this mission is to remove as many pieces of debris with the minimum amount of fuel,” said Daniele Mortari of Texas A&M University.

Continued:

 

The most technically and politically sound idea is a simple rendezvous mission, during which a clean-up craft would travel to and de-orbit debris objects one at a time, Missel said. But such a mission would burn loads of fuel to get between widely spaced targets, making it “fatally plagued by inefficiency,” he added. 

The 4S system, which Missel and Mortari are developing, aims to correct this fatal flaw. It would snare debris at the end of a spinning satellite, then fling the object down to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

The spacecraft would harness the momentum exchanged during both of these actions to cruise over to the next piece of space junk on its list, minimizing fuel use and extending its operational life to the point that such a mission might be practical.

Work on 4S this year includes looks at hardware options, Mortari said, and further optimization of the idea. 

Green Clean Junk Removal Service is keeping its feet firmly planted on terra firma for now. But maybe some day we’ll look towards the stars.

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HOUSTON (KTRK) – A large fire struck a house this afternoon in northwest Houston.

Firefighters think the fire started in the attic, but because of all the items inside they couldn’t get to the source of the fire.We’re told the residence on Moorberry was a hoarder’s house which made fighting the fire more difficult. At one point, firefighters had to pull out of the house and fight it from the outside.

No one was hurt but the house was destroyed. 

Sadly, Green Clean Junk Removal Services has seen several tragic hoarding situations. Hoarding left unchecked can be dangerous for everyone involved. A hoarder can literally get buried alive under a mound of trash and junk. In other cases, a hoarder can fall ill and become trapped inside their home. And, in cases like the one in Houston, a hoarder’s house can become a fire trap, ready to burn.

If you know of someone struggling with hoarding, please encourage them to seek professional help. Green Clean Junk Removal Services can help. Our hoarder junk removal service can clean up after a hoarder and help a hoarder regain control of their lives, but without proper follow up treatment and counseling, a person with a hoarding disorder may return to their old ways.

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This last Monday we completed a backyard clean out for home in Santa Clarita. In the homeowner’s defense it wasn’t her junk. She had called Green Clean Junk Removal to help her clean up a recent foreclosure she had bought. Green Clean Junk Removal hauled away about two truck loads from her backyard alone. Leftover wood construction debris, a rusty swing set, and a couple barrels of trash. After we finished our backyard clean out our client thanked us profusely for helping her get rid of all that junk and making a her new backyard a safe area for her kids to play.

That is really what we do at Green Clean Junk Removal Services. We help people live better, happier and cleaner lives. 

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In Los Angeles and New York City dumpster rental is tightly regulated. In almost every section of Los Angeles, for instance, a person cannot put a dumpster on the street without a costly permit. In certain neighborhoods in Los Angeles you won’t be able to rent a dumpster at all unless its from a city’s sanctioned waste management company (these are called franchised areas). These dumpster can be very very pricey and still require you to do all your own junk removal.

Using a junk removal service cuts through all this red tape. Green Clean Junk Removal Services comes to your house with a truck and two guys. Our junk removal pros dispose of the junk you want gone and haul it away. We do all the work and we handle all the disposal.

Green Clean Junk Removal Services spares you the headaches of dumpster rental and the labor of cleaning up.  

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Our customers love us, but we always feel like we can do better so we are always striving to improve. Green Clean Junk Removal Services wants to be the only choice for junk removal by providing the finest customer service and the fastest junk removal service for every order.

Luckily, Green Clean Junk Removal Services employs the best junk removal professionals in Los Angeles, California and New York City and each one of them shares our customer service values.

March 13, 2013

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