Pasco County waterways, libraries, recycling, bus, dogs

1:38:18Pasco County waterways and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains. Stormwater carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers, creating an unhealthy environment for fish, waterfowl, and other aquatic animals. Storm drains are meant for clean rainwater. Most other discharges are illegal. If you suspect an illicit discharge, please contact Pasco County, Department of Public Works, at seven two seven eight three four three six one one.

1:42:06Mm-hmm. Yeah. Go Pasco and Pasco County Libraries are perfect partners. Perfect place to buy your bus pass.

1:42:18I'm very excited to introduce our newest library where you could buy bus passes. We listened to your requests, and you can now buy your bus passes at the downtown Newport Ritchie Library.

1:42:31It's very convenient. To come from where I live to the library to pick up a bus pass. Before I would have to use two buses, and now I can use one.

1:42:43The Newport Ritchie Public Library acts as an information hub to the entire West Pasco community. We are thrilled to be able to offer the GoPasco bus passes as an additional service for. Our community.

1:42:59The bus passes that you could buy at the downtown Newport Ritchie Library are 31 Day, Regular and Reduced, and the 20 Ride. And don't forget, you can get your day passes on the bus. The partnership between GoPasco and the Newport Ritchie Library downtown is a great, great partnership. We've wanted this for many years. I just love

1:43:26Find your way to Pasco County Libraries with Gopasco at gopasco.com.

1:43:51Hey everyone, I'm Ryan Hughes, Public Information Officer for Pasco County. We get a lot of questions about our recycling program like what to do with everyday items like this little thing. Well, let me walk you through it. The same company that picks up your trash also picks up your recycling. Once those items are collected, the reusable materials go on a long journey from your home or office to Pasco County's recycling transfer facility.

1:44:21Everything that's recycled ends up right here in this huge pile.

1:44:28Our county facility accepts recycling from all over the county before we send it to a private material recovery facility in Pinellas. Then sophisticated machines go through every bit of recycling and sort it into the right spot. From there, it's off to other facilities where it's broken down and eventually made into something new like this.

1:44:59In Pasco County, if you pay for curbside trash service, weekly recycling is included. Just contact your hauler for a pickup schedule or order a recycling cart. Thank you for helping make Pasco a cleaner, greener community. For more information on Pasco's recycling program, visit mypasco.net.

1:45:28Today we're out here with PCPT and we are training um our dogs, our puppies, to enter and ride a bus. We are on the paratransit bus and the regular buses. We've learned about ramps and stairs and lifts and um each of our puppies had an opportunity to go up and down and into the bus and ride one. For some of them it's the very first time.

1:45:52There are a lot of sounds and feels of a bus like our fixed route you can feel the ground shaking there's a lot of movement you hear braking sometimes you