Best Green Program

TIE: Car2Go; Single-Stream Recycling

Stuff your recyclables into a blue cart and roll it to the curb. Stuff yourself into a little blue-and-white car and roll it from the curb. Both the city of Austin's easy-breezy single-stream program for residential recycling and Car2Go's expanding fleet of rent-by-the-minute smart-for-two cars encourage the transition toward reducing our carbon footprint, not only as individuals but as a community. Efforts to live more sustainably can seem too great a responsibility for one person, and these programs offer tangible results, greater than any of us could accomplish individually, as we simultaneously shrink today's landfill and clear tomorrow's air.

Car2Go
800 W. Fifth Ste. 100-B, 877/488-4224
www.car2go.com

City of Austin Solid Waste Services
512/494-9400
www.cityofaustin.org/sws