Travis, how would you throw that down at the residential drop off center? A plastic bottle.
come on. It's just a plastic bottle. Who cares? Just the plastic bottle.
hey, hold up timeout. We'll get to deandre's interview next. But
here are some city headlines. Houston hosted its inaugural
fleet week. More than 1500 service members and three
ships visited our region, giving houstonians a rare opportunity
to meet members of the armed forces tour ships and attend events
across the city. It was a meaningful week that highlighted
the dedication of the us navy, marines, and coast guard.
we closed the week with the fleet week ball, celebrating service and
sacrifice of these men and women. Houston showed up by welcoming
our military, showcasing the best of our city, and expressing
our deep appreciation. After weeks
of discussion and dozens of public comments from houstonians city council
approved revisions to an ordinance that regulates how houston police officers
respond to civil immigration warrants issued by us immigration
and customs enforcement, also known as ice mayor whitmeyer said that
the change will follow the law, reinforce the fourth amendment and protect
the city's 114 million in public safety funding
from the state. Houston city council also approved both
the lease and operator agreement for four 19 emancipation between the
city of houston and the harris center for mental health and idd marking
a major step forward in bringing this 24 7 triage treatment and
transition facility online for individuals living without
stable housing. Four 19 reflects the administration's commitment to homelessness
response that helps move people from crisis to stability and toward
permanent housing. We are here at the north main residential
drop-off center with deandre huddleson. How are you today? Doing just fine. And
yourself? Good, good. Tell us what happens here. So, residential drop off centers are
made for residents to come when they don't have space at home, while they don't have the equipment
to drop their trash so they can come here and recycle, they can drop heavy trash tires,
scrap metal, concrete motor, all white goods and a
large variety of other things. Now, when thinking about commercial goods, like things
that get at the grocery store, what should they think about specifically to
drop off? So specifically you want to try to focus on your regular household goods.
we don't want any commercial stuff like, uh, business waste. We only want stuff that you
have at home that you would use. So the important, uh, numbers
that they should look at on the packaging as far as what can be recycled. Yeah, so
that's a good question. So on plastic, you wanna look on the triangles.
most of 'em have on the bottom of a bottle, it'll have a one through five or seven.
and what are some things that you wanna make sure that residents know about recycling?
recycling is real. Everybody thinks that the mill fields we are gathering is all
up and taken to the landfill. It actually goes to a mur where it's mechanically separated and processed
and sent all around the country to get recycling reused by everybody.
so this happened to me. I had a tub of peanut butter.
I finished it off, I I soak in water overnight, you know, to get all the
remnants off, but there's still a little bit left along the rim. Will you
take that? And is there something that you wish that maybe
more people would do with their food containers before recycling? So obviously
that's one step to take that will help tremendously. The main thing is to try
to get as much food waste out of the recycling as possible so that we don't have contamination.
what's up? Question with that in mind, pizza boxes, does it matter
if they're broken down or not? Does not matter. Woo. Does
not matter. So wait, you will take pizza boxes that even has like the grease and stuff on
there? Yes. . Oh, wow. . Now something that
kind of peeves me is when someone wants to put plastic bags and recycling and
I'm like, no, you need to take them to the grocery store. That's correct. So, yeah,
so we don't want plastic bags. And the reason we don't, 'cause like I said, at the murphy, everything's mechanically separated.
so when you use those plastic bags, it's, they're wrapping up around the machinery and they have to stop
and break all this stuff out and it takes time and money. So we try to not
use plastic bags at all. We would like you everything to come here separately and out of
the bags. So hours of operation, if people
wanna just drop by, how do they do that? So we're open tuesday through saturday at
these locations. We have 11 locations around town. They're open eight to five. These
locations are open nine to six as well. Alright, we are going to catch
up with the entree later on the show, but let us now go to this houston. How to
on how to separate your heavy trash for easy pickup,
heavy trash, big items that don't fit in your regular bin.
the city of houston's solid waste management department works hard to keep
our neighborhoods clean. Here's how you can help ensure your heavy trash
gets picked up safely and efficient. Residents
may place tree waste and bulk waste together for curbside collection once
a month. This includes tree limbs, branches, stumps,
furniture, appliances, and other large household
materials. Dos and don'ts. Please limit
to no more than eight cubic yards. Keep clear of water and
gas meters, hydrants and utilities. No contractor generated
materials. Do not stack under wires, signs or mailboxes.
do not place items in the street or block. Sidewalks and traffic.
give you your solid waste edition.
houston has six neighborhood drop-off centers you can use up
to four times a month. Bring your id and proof of residency
for access. By working together, we can keep houston
clean and beautiful. Please visit houston solid waste.org for
guidelines, schedules, and drop off locations.
coming up next on city pulse, the city introduces a new translation service for
city council and we have a preview of it at a community meeting.
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welcome back. And next on the fix-it files. The minister's advisory board
to the mayor lays the groundwork for inclusive community meetings by
being the first to use ai translation provided by the department of neighborhoods.
let's take a look at how this service has a major impact
on the community and faith leaders.
we are here at the minister's advisory board meeting today, and there is
something amazing happening here. We have our translation system
provided to us by the department of neighborhoods. Talk about your experience
with this translation service. I know so many pastors, people in the community,
probably they know the language, but they have some limitations. This is a wonderful
opportunity for us to get together to help the people. It's a lot of information
going on because the devices are just for anybody, any language.
the mayor's heartbeat is just making sure transparency is
involved. He wants to make sure that everybody has a opportunity and everybody has a
seat at the table so that they can address their concerns. I have ian here with us and
he's gonna kind of walk us through what it looks like when someone is using
the translation services. Yeah. So what we have here is we have a, an
a live captioning and simultaneous interpreting program here that
supports multiple languages. I see people come in using this amazing qr
code. So when they use the qr code, what happens? Uh, you snap the qr code, then it opens
up the application, and then you can select the language. You can follow along, uh,
with audio or just look at the translation as it scrolls down the screens. You voiced
early on that, hey, we need some form of translation, then a opportunity
for the translation services came in. Yes, I can tell you it makes
the whole difference to pastors coming from all over the city
and what translation does. It makes it possible that everyone's hearing
the right information at the same time. Yes. And that we are able to transfer
that to our churches and our people. But the beautiful thing about this translation
service as ai, the more we've been able to use it, the
better it's gotten over time. We are really thankful to the nature because
he, you know, his effort in putting all this together just
because he has a heart, he has a love and compassion for all
the people that understand what's going on in their own language. So thank you so much.
this translation service that has been brought to this meeting, what type
of impact do you all think in your experience has had? Well, the key I
think to all of it is essentially being able to communicate.
and when we have issues of language, this breaks down that barrier.
when I took this to mayor with my, it was a win-win. He jumped on
it, said, hey, council, david, what do you need? He sees the need of
bringing this type of program so that, as pastor president william
said, it's a form of communication. It break down any barriers.
thank you. Thank you for providing the resources because, uh,
we, we wanna make sure they understand, right? We wanna make sure they engage.
yes, we wanna make sure that they feel appreciated. Yes. And we wanna make sure they feel
like, oh, I can do this. So again, I wanna thank you for watching
the fix it files another community, another opportunity, another
space that this administration has been able to go in, see an issue
and fix it. Until next time, I'm rebecca williams.
now it is time to get creative, taking common goods, like reusing these tires
here, turning 'em into artistic autos as part of the annual art car
parade. Spectrum fusion was on the scene and this is what they saw.
we have been attendees of the art car parade for years. It was always one of my
parents' favorite things to go and look at and see all the cars
and take pictures with them. And we've always talked about being part
of the parade. And then last year I was asked to be on the board of the orange show and
I just thought, okay, if I'm on the board, I need to step it up and actually do what we've
been saying we're gonna do for 10 years. And we jumped in with both feet and now we
have the tiki set. We just had a blast our first year last year, and
my husband decided that it would be fun if we added something to the car each year.
this year we have added a surfboard. That's what he gave me for my birthday. It
was quite a surprise. And that has been mounted to the side of the car.
and so I'm sure that we'll have something else fun that we'll do for next year.
and just hope to continue the tradition. America's 250
birthday is this year. So we wanted to get the word out.
my chapter, brad's valley got an excellent way to
get the word out about the birthday, was to participate
in the largest public event in houston, texas. And
an incredible celebration. It's just a great event. There are
tons of people, everyone's very happy. And we wanted
to as have fun with the concept of patriotism.
and this was a good place to do it. I hope everybody, if you've got
any gumption to get in the parade, it is such an amazing thing to
do. And it's huge. And all the people there are, they're having so
much fun. And there's just, there's thousands of people that go. And
if you wanna be in an art park, you can do it. If I can do it with all the
velcro and staple guns and stuff, you don't have to be a huge
serious artist to do it. You just have to have an idea and some gumption
and just jump in. And I hope everybody will participate that wants to.
we are back with deandre at the reuse warehouse, located right next to the north maine
residential dropoff center. What is this place, deandre? So, the reuse warehouse is
a great program where corporations, stores, even residents,
can come and drop off any type of building materials that are not being used, that are still used
for, so that we can donate 'em to 5 0 1 cs where they can come and shop and
grab these items at no cost. Thank you again, deandre and thank
you travis for remembering to recycle for hdv houston television
spectrum fusion, the city of houston, and the solid waste management department.
I am rebecca williams. Deandre's gonna take us on a quick tour, but remember as
always, we can always do better and kindness is free.
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