Important Announcements

CURRENT INFORMATION: go to our Facebook group "Waco Friends of the Climate." 1) Beginning Jan. 2025, our focus has been on resistance to Donald Trump, since his policies are our greatest threat to the climate. Thus, we are not having monthly meetings at this time. We hope to hold monthly meetings in the future. Visit our Facebook group for current activities, Waco Friends of the Climate. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 2) Our role in the resistance includes a weekly protest at the pedestrian bridge in Waco, Valley Mills Dr. & Bagby Avenue, each Sunday, 1:00pm-2:30pm. We began the protest in March 2025 and it has been carried on weekly for over one year. We provide huge, highly visible banners. Please join us. RESISTING FASCISM, ONE SUNDAY AT A TIME. 3) Because of the sad passing of our webmaster, Harrison Ward, we have not been able to keep the website up to date. For the most current information, please visit our Facebook group, Waco Friends of the Climate : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 4) To join our email list and be informed of actions, activities, and campaigns, email our Director Alan Northcutt at anorthc@aol.com 5)Free "climate crisis is here" yard signs may be obtained by emailing anorthc@aol.com. Delivery of signs is available. Help raise awareness of the climate crisis, deeply needed in Waco. 6) Winners of the "Sixth Annual Climate Crisis Art Exhibit" may be found in the Archives, April 2023. Some incredible climate art may be viewed.

10th Quarterly Styrofoam Collection - City of Waco To Take Over Operation Begun By Waco Friends of the Climate

Waco Friends of the Climate's 10th Styrofoam Collection for Recycling took place on Oct 9, 2021, at the Cobbs Recycling Center. Response of Wacoans continued to be great, even on a day when there were many simultaneous events. We collected styrofoam in a volume to fill 1 40 yard roll off dumpster and a 2nd 3/4 full 40 yard roll off dumpster.

The good news is that after 9 quarterly collections, after which we drove rented trucks to Waxahachie for recycling, the City of Waco will obtain a densifier machine and begin to process styrofoam in Waco. The resultant plastic ingots are being used for products such as lawn furniture, coat hangers, door frames, and eyeglass frames. And the FOC began this program because the production of new, virgin plastic releases much more GHGs than plastic derived from recycled styrofoam.

Great thanks to our hard-working volunteer crew:  Harrison Ward, Doug Michaels MD, Monty Suffern, Jack Bowers, and Alice McEwen. Although the event was outdoors, we had relatively close contact with drivers, and we thus wore masks as we have throughout the pandemic. Many thanks as well to Ashley Millerd Crownover of the City of Waco, and the truck driver for roll offs for collaboration on this event. The styrofoam we collected will be stored until the densifier is in operation.

In the future, the City will announce when it will begin to accept styrofoam for local recycling. This is good news, as the City can handle a much larger volume than can the Friends of the Climate.











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