Medical Marijuana in Pasco County
The first organization authorized to dispense medical marijuana in Florida has made its first home delivery, but Pasco Commisioners want to extend a moratorium on the sale, growth and distribution of cannabis. Patients suffering from cancer, epilepsy, chronic seizures and chronic muscle spasms can order medical marijuana by contacting their physician
Rocky Point
Pasco County may buy Rocky Creek land along the coast allowed the Pasco County Commission to add the 65 acres to a project list in 2009. Now, commissioners may buy the land with proceeds from the original Penny for Pasco sales tax to turn it into a public park preserve.
Pasco Brocolli
A local Pasco County broccoli variety has made it on a listing in the Seed Savers Exchange 2012 Yearbook. The Calabrese G+G broccoli seed stock, maintained by USF instructor Dell de Chant, is now nationally listed in the yearbook.The "Calabrese G+G" broccoli seed stock is nurtured and maintained by Dell de Chant, a New Port Richey organic farmer and religious studies instructor at the University of South FloridaOrganic Farmer and Professor of Religious Studies
Organic farmer Dell De Chant is also an instructor and Associate Chair of Department of Religious Studies. Waste-to- Energy Facility
What is “waste to energy?”
Waste-to-energy facilities produce clean, renewable energy through the combustion of
municipal solid waste. This process occurs in specifically designed power plants
equipped with the most modern pollution control equipment to clean emissions.
Recycle
What Happens to our Recyclables?
The blue bags are brought to the Pasco County Material Recovery Facility (MRF) for processing. The materials are sorted, baled and sold to markets to be made into new products. Recycling conserves trees, water and other natural resources by reducing what people throw away and it returns valuable material to the industry for reuse.
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