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Image courtesy Keep Austin BeautifulThursday November 15th is Texas Recycles Day, a statewide campaign to raise awareness about recycling. There are a number of happenings across the state, but an Austin event worth mentioning is HEB's celebration. Local area HEBs are giving out 20,000 reusable grocery bags as well as encouraging customers to use the newish plastic bag recycling containers at the entrances of the stores for both grocery bags and other thin plastic recyclables... more ›

The next time you're out with the dudebrahs at Lake Travis, think twice before tossing that Bud Light into the water. Yesterday, Keep Austin Beautiful hosted its 13th annual Lake Travis Underwater Cleanup, a massive scuba diving and shoreline litter removal effort. What they dredged up ranged from the ordinary to the truly bizarre. A partial list, from the Statesman: A kitchen sink A bottle of wine A debit card Cans of beer - 600... more ›