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Permanent Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility
City's progressive garbage policies keep the city clean and green
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They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure, but nowhere is this truer than in Sunnyvale. In a land where progress is often associated with the latest advances in microchip technology, perhaps Sunnyvale's most underrated progress is in how it treats its garbage. Since 1982, Sunnyvale has been home to the SMaRT station (Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer), a high-tech dump where not only are curbside recyclables saved from the fill, but workers pick through the regular trash for anything that could be sold, recycled, or reused. While the rest of the state still dumps two-thirds of its trash into landfills, Sunnyvale now recycles 53 percent of its refuse. Because the SMaRT station was already operating in the city, the county viewed it as a logical spot for one of its three new hazardous-waste disposal sites. With the addition of the new Permanent Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility, which opened in July, the town has become even more cutting-edge.
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Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley
Organization seeks funding from Sunnyvale to help rescue wild animals.
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Sunnyvale, California Since 1994
