11/21/11 Reading

The article about the Portland City Hall initiative highlights a survey conducted by hired company was part of a campaign to raise awareness about recycling and waste management. The telephone survey asked residents of Portland if they rented a room in their house to others, tried to repair broken items instead of replacing them, using cloth napkins instead of paper ones, shared tools with others instead of buying brand new ones, and shopped at second hand stores. While these questions seem to bounce around to many different subjects, they all focus on the ability to reuse or use recycled materials, and conserving energy. I believe that this survey did a very good job of highlighting many different kinds that ordinary citizens reduce, reuse, and recycle and really got people about their habits in order to save their environment.