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Recycling Failures 101: It’s not Always Your Fault

May 15, 2021May 18, 2021 Mike Nowak Blazing Star Nursery, Dennis Warnecke, Extended Producer Responsibility, Marta Keane, Peggy Malecki, Recycling failures, recycling plastics, rhizophagy cycle, soil biology, Tainio Biologicals Inc., The Mike Nowak Show, Will County Green

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Will County Recycling Program Specialist Marta Keane returns to talk recycling failures and successes. Dennis Warnecke from Tainio Biologicals Inc also returns to instruct us on the importance of soil biology in growing plants.

Beekeeping Gardening Plastics Podcast Recycling

Plastics Mess on Aisle 2 in the Green Industry

March 6, 2021May 19, 2021 Mike Nowak Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), Beth Botts, Bike a Bee, Illinois General Assembly, Institute for Justice, Marie Chieppo, Nicole Virgil, Peggy Malecki, plastic pots, Qae-Dah Muhammad, recycling plastics, Right to Garden law, The Mike Nowak Show

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Landscape designer Marie Chieppo examines why can’t we figure out what to do with horticultural plastic. Jana Kinsman from Bike a Bee and Qae-Dah Muhammad of Arthur Ashe Beach Park Advisory Council talk about raising honey bees in Chicago. Nicole Virgil returns to talk about the Right to Garden bill. She’s joined by Ari Bargil from the Institute for Justice, which is supporting her effort to grow food in her Elmhurst hoop house.