Florida cities experiment with underground waste containers
Out-of-Sight Trash
Three years ago, Kissimmee installed its first underground waste containers behind city hall. Today, the city has 11 such systems around town and recently added four subterranean bins at the Hamilton at Lakeside apartments, making it the first apartment complex in North America to use the underground waste infrastructure, which was developed by an Italian company. Other Florida cities are also experimenting with the method. Clearwater is in the process of designing and installing several units near the beach and will also add one outside of Spectrum Field, where the Philadelphia Phillies hold their spring training.
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Respect gaining for cut-and-sew industry
To spur cut-and-sew manufacturing in Colorado, it’s time to get back to basics
December 10, 2020
As COVID-19 spread across Colorado in the spring, sewing skills were suddenly in high demand.
Outdoor manufacturers like Melanzana in Leadville, Phunkshun Wear in Denver, and Osprey’s pack repair team in Cortez pivoted from their usual catalog to face masks, as did numerous home-based sewers.
It was a shot in the arm for Colorado’s cut-and-sew industry, which has withered as manufacturing largely migrated overseas over the last 40 years. But can the mask boom sustain a broader comeback for the sector?