Sustainable Mariemont: Compost Your Table Scraps

By Mandy Rohal

Were you inspired by Earth Day? Do you want to do your part for cleaner air? Did you know that Mariemont offers a composting program? Come join other Mariemont families in our quest to reduce solid waste going into the landfill.

By reducing the amount of solid waste we add to landfills, we are able to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses going into the atmosphere. Methane is the most potent greenhouse gas (20 times more powerful than CO2), and landfills are the 3rd largest source of human related methane emissions. The question shouldn’t be: why should I compost? It should be: why not compost? If you are ready to start your composting journey, please reach out to

Mariemont Receives Recycling Grant

Congratulations Mariemont residents! The results are in, and Mariemont has been recognized for achieving a diversion rate of 66.3%, earned a recycling grant of $11,132.79 from Hamilton County R3SOURCE. (Go online to: https://mariemont.org/download/ miscellaneous/2023/RRI-2023-AwardLetter_Mariemont.pdf to read the detailed letter from R3SOURCE)

In 2022, we diverted 2,073 tons of material from going to landfill! Residents saved resources, conserved energy, and reduced pollution by recycling. Our collective recycling efforts:

• Conserved enough energy to power every home in Mariemont for 10 days.

• Reduced more air pollution than if every household in Mariemont rode their bicycle to work for 9 weeks.

• Saved 2,299 trees from being harvested. Well done and keep recycling!

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Father-daughter (from front page) and booming cannons. Later that fall we went back to see Spooky Hollow.

These trips were very successful, and the fathers and daughters enjoyed them so much that we wanted to keep them going after the Class of 2015 graduated. So, we invited the 7th grade girls/dads the next year. There were 80 of us on that trip! The first trip activity was a paintball battle. They lined up 20 yards apart (it look like a Civil War skirmish) and let it rip. They were so proud of the welts after being shot and showed them off proudly. The next day we went white water rafting.

Some of us got sea sick. We had brought some flyers that showed how to tie different nautical