Free Classes via County (link)
The county offers FREE virtual classes on a wide variety of topics that can be useful to homeowners and apartment-dwellers alike.
- Keep your drains from clogging with plumbing tips + county flushable guidelines (if you have an apartment, maintenance might take awhile AND some places can charge you hundreds of dollars for certain types of clogs. Avoid those problems.)
- Recycling tips and the new laws (you can get fined by the County if you recycle improperly, which damages their equipment. Avoid those fees!)
- Cooking oil should never be thrown down the drain, which clogs your pipes at the U-bend and later, clogs up sewage drains underground, leading to backups and repairs that cost thousands of your taxpayer dollars. There is a cooking oil recycling program. This is especially useful if you own a small business!
- There are ALSO free classes in person and sometimes online about issues like composting, saving water, and other environmental issues! AND they sometimes give away FREE compost bins, trees, and rain barrels to put on your property!
If you live in an apartment and have only a balcony and are interested, only certain types of composters (the barrel type that is completely enclosed and pest/small animal-proof) are useful, but it turns your household waste like scrap foods into soil in a few months. I can put edible herbs that would be most expensive to grow on my porch. Strawberries and tomatoes are another good yield urban growing choice. Google "urban balcony gardening" for help!
Save your money and your sanity. Take advantage of these free online classes via the County to show what programs they offer for collections, along with how to avoid high hidden charges for water and breaks around your home.
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