sarasota police officers learn the fine art of handling their squad cars difficult situation and we'll visit another great sarasota neighborhood but first city of sarasota residents to send nearly twelve hundred tons of garbage to the landfill each month which is why recycling is very important to the city's sustainability efforts but recycling properly is the keep it here's why the problem with things going to the landfill is that it takes up space and probably most importantly is that all those items in a landfill produce a harmful greenhouse gas called methane gas and that's the most potent greenhouse gas there is and so we really want to try to prevent sending things to the landfill as much as possible recycling is so important because it conserves our roberge and natural materials and protects those natural resources for ha recent most recent look at our recycling rate was that city of sarasota residents were recycling around twenty for twenty four percent of our our waste i think that much more of our waste is recyclable so we have room for improvement but we are a little below the national average but we are better than some other communities as well so i just hope it's something that we can continue to keep in front of people's minds you know it's the kind of goes up and down in its popularity of being talked about but recycling is important so i think it's time to revisit it and make sure that we're doing it right there has been some confusion over all recycling over the years and i think that's because things have changed the rules have changed but also there's the simple things that can be recycled like plastic bottles and milk jugs but sometimes there's hybrids of materials that can confuse people like a cereal box that has the cardboard outside with a plastic liner you know is are they both recyclable so if somebody has questions i really recommend call they all the waste management hotline and it's a great resource is a real person that answers i call it all the time and you can ask them all kinds of questions on specific materials that coffee bag that you might have a question or that frozen food bag you know call them and ask so when you put an item at your curb it goes to a material recovery facility in tampa and how this material recovery facility works is that there's a long conveyor belt that's automated now except for the first step well where real humans workers you know pick out those obvious things that shouldn't be on the belt and that's not recyclable such as paper the plastic bags and they pick those out the next step is that conveyor belt goes along and it goes over these sprockets that kick cardboard into its own been so it separates the cardboard then it keeps going and it goes over this rare earth magnets that kind of attracts tin and steel and that puts it into their own bin and then the next step it's so fascinating the next step is that it goes over a rare or an eddy currents and that eddy currents repels aluminum and that aluminum flies over into its own bin and the conveyor belt keeps going and the last thing is plastics well there's two things left at the plastics have this really fascinating technology where there's little electronic eyes almost there read the shade in type of plastic and spit air out and those air in the different types of pot plastics the different colors into their own bins so the only thing left over that process is a class a glass get shaken into its own ben and what's left are these big huge containers of like materials that are bales into one ton blocks wrapped in swine and shipped to manufacturers either overseas or domestic and it can take as little as thirty days for one aluminum cans to go into that plant and be reused again contamination is kind of a funny word because i think of toxic softener chemical contamination but when in this sense when we say contamination and recycling it's really when you put something in your recycle bin that shouldn't be there that's not recyclable and that's really a problem and why is because it makes the whole system inefficient and more expensive for everybody and you know for example if plastic bags are put into the recycle bin it can close a plant up for a whole day and that really is hard for the whole  operation to be efficient so putting the right things in there but also if people put sharp on objects like even hangers and things like that back in harm the workers that are in there they've you know things can turn into projectiles when they go over there you and systems so really it's about starting at home and at the separation level getting the right things in there so that it remains an efficient recycling system recycling is related to sustainability it's a very important component to a larger topic of sustainability and sustainability is really about how we can meet our current needs while ensuring that future generations can also meet their needs and  so recycling is about our waste and what we do with our waste and how we can meet our current waste needs but also thinking in the future about future generations and what our waste is leaving behind for them to deal with and so recycling is helping address that it's important to get kids involved with how to recycle correctly because there are teacher you know they're going to be the ones doing this in the next generation and so it's important for us to teach them now so they can easily carry it into adulthood the new roundabout and main street in orange avenues finally complete the work began in july and the intersection partially opened in october while crews finalized some detail work such as new sidewalks landscaping and the interior structure w public piece will be placed the next planned roundabout will be built at either the intersection of ringling in orange avenue or coconut and paul we're going to take a quick break but don't go away more city life is coming up you know city of syria so the drinking water is very safe tested every two hours delivered right here it's much more affordable than bottled water environmentally friendly there's only one thing to be it's a beautiful day on the water and that's a safe down the water so before you leave the dock be sure that you have all your required safety equipment on board each person must have a coast guard approved life and they must be age and size appropriate and don't forget to have a throwback flotation device as well a fully charged fire extinguisher a whistle or air horn a visual distress signal like a flare gun or handheld flares and be sure to check the expiration dates and know not required a v h f radio can be one of the most important pieces of equipment carelessness and attention and excessive alcohol consumption are the leading cause of the boating actions in the state of florida pay close attention to your surroundings and all the signage and finally designated sober driver and don't forget anybody born after january first of nine hundred eighty eight is required to take safe boating course all boaters are encouraged to do so as well as basic tips can help you and other boaters enjoy a waterway safely say on the water welcome back to city life you know law enforcement officers get a lot of training in a wide variety of skills and perhaps one of the most important is something you and i take for granted every day driving but for the officers it's a big deal let's visit the driving range driving is really important because i would have to say seventy five percent if not more of the day of their twelve hour shift going to be behind the wheel so it's very important that it also becomes very dangerous it's one of the the leading causes of death for law enforcement officers so that's why we actually teach it so they can understand exactly how the vehicle works we have several different vehicles that we drive so we go over the ones that they will be driving on the street lights like a little city built around that we can try to get as close as we can to the road training but we're teaching a pursuit driving on the officer goes to conduct a traffic stop and the person flees then they have to get on the radio and say that they're the vehicles fleeing they have to give a reason so it's under our general orders that you know there are certain things we can and we cannot chase for meets those criteria then it's hard it's going to approve the pursuit so they have caught where they're at why they're chasing this person  we want to keep on going over that or out there we have and do it by six seven times out there if not more so they kind of get used to it when they go out there on the street so they're not obviously getting in collisions and and they know what to yield for when they're out  great really great through the are going to set up a felony stop we're going to take one pass through we're going to do a two car we all know basically you do a felony stop it breaks your heart to do it then when you get into that pursuit driving and then it becomes a felony stop after that so then you've got to get more more cars they're more officers you gotta know how to set up your car where you're at very important you don't have any issues of safety concerns and and so on with the traffic and citizens that are in the area when you're trying to do a felony stop and you know officers are going to be there with their guns drawn their rifles drawn so you've got to be looking all around making sure that you know there's other officers going to play roles that get in the traffic stop and everything form so when the guy guy could jump out of the car we're also teaching them a technique that's called that's called the pit pursuit intervention technique to stop a pursuit if it continues to go on so we train with it a lot so we can stop  pursuit if we have to will will use it out there to get the vehicle off the road and all the officers go through that kind of training so it becomes a point during the pursuit do they need to use it they know how to do it to make contact with the car yeah it's a little in the little nerve racking for some but but once we go over it teach the proper way of doing that and it seems to be something that they actually they get used to and it doesn't become an issue they actually we do that about every year to two years we do different things one year old to pursue driving up there the next year we'll do some backing up some a base of maneuvers we do parallel parking we just go over all the stuff  officer anthony clark and officer brandon per million hey don't go away we'll be back in a minute with more city li s everyone likes a well groomed landscape and whether you do it yourself or hire a landscape crew remember to keep your lawn and garden debris from ending up in our bay and water city ordinance prohibits blowing long cuttings in leaves into streets which ends up in storm drains and then straight into our bay there they decompose and turn into nitrogen which could lead to algae blooms and red tide in order to bays remember to blow all lawn cuttings back into your yard where it will eventually decompose into useful nutrients or cool old school and sweep it up and dispose of it properly lawn cuttings aren't the only danger to the ba trash and other contaminants can reach the storm drains which also in danger's the bays ecosystem so go on enjoy your beautiful yard but don't blow it when it comes to our  and welcome back two thousand and fifteen was a great year in the city of sarasota here's a quick review of couple stories you may have missed since our last episode of city life the city of sarasota was pleased to announce the installation of the hearing induction loop listening assistance system in the city commission chambers and s r q media studio at city hall also known as an induction loop system the technology magnetically transmit sounds to hearing aids and coakley are implants w which receive speech in a clear crisp manner a small coil of wire inside a hearing aid then receives that signal the loop system and hence is the closed captioning service already offered by the city and so today the four families are going to get a chance to get free groceries online of the world sarasota is a generous community and one local church made life a little brighter for some families with a unique gift the light of the world church sponsored a grocery grab at the north trail a neighborhood wal mart store in fall three families were selected to participate in the go around and were given three minutes to grab as many groceries as they could with the church picking up the tab and the reason why we're doing this is our churches our leaders are always looking just want to help somebody we want to make a difference and it means a lot because i'm not rich i'm not for but sometimes we all need a helping hand seriously we are going up and so i'm excited and it's time to visit it's pretty narrow but jasmine all the way to hyde park so it's a long way of twenty streets here are walking distance to just about anything restaurants bookstores coffee shops the mall is right across forty one if  want to take a trip anywhere even further the bus station there at the mall so it's very easy to jump on a bus and go pretty much anywhere i like it being close quite frankly to southside village and i spend more of my time up in that area and didn't mention i don't think that we also are very close to the hospital so most of my doctors all of the things i want take advantage of a relatively five to ten minutes away from my home close to downtown close to the beach being close to the water's important to me but you know  we're close to everything it's just location location location is our little slogan i just it works it's just a great neighborhood and we chose this neighborhood because of the proximity to school we had a small child at the time and knew he would be attending school there so we wanted to be close to a good neighborhood school it's fantastic i mean the school in the middle of your neighborhood with the fields and the playground and the facilities and we use it as a neighborhood association to have our meetings it's a very neighborhood school and you'll see the people walking to school in the mornings you'll see them picking their children up in the afternoon and one of the very neat braggers rights that we have is the park the park that the school provides so any given sunday weekend you can come out here and they'll be families playing kickball playing football playing on the playground equipment so it's a very nice community feel that we have here in south park neighborhood i want to live in  there were people year round and families in diversity of age groups and things going on so i looked what's the trail for a long time and love the neighborhoods around here they care about each other because this is their making long term friends rather than just here for a couple of hours or a couple days or a couple of weeks at a time so i think it does create a greater sense of community i was here for twenty four hours and my neighbor not to the door and says do you mind if i invite some of the neighbors over to meet you i lived in washington for seventeen years i barely knew my next door neighbor so it's just a fabulous set of people that live in the area we have both the urban and the more neighborhood feel to this area we can walk anywhere there are sidewalks there are crosswalks the speed limit is twenty five here on our side streets thirty on ospreys so we feel safe with parents need over here and then go on morning walks together around the neighborhood neighbors wave to each other and say hi we know each other's names we know each other's dogs means so it does have a very nice cozy feel to it but so with some of the same amenities that you would get in a large or larger area the base of this neighborhood the base houses were built in the fifty's late forty's early fifty's and so many of these trees were planted so you still see that so you don't see it like the new development where everything was mowed down and that's also makes it a very very attractive block to live on i think we spent a lot of time walking around and waving at neighbors and we have a pretty good neighborhood association where we tend to keep up with what's going on and talk about if there are any problems in the neighborhood or what's new but i think people know each other and i think that's important thing my number one favorite thing about this neighborhood is the feeling of being safe i have a son there are a lot of children around here that the children meet and congregate over at the school and play and they ride their bikes and it just it's almost like the old fashioned neighborhood where everybody could go out and play kick the can at night and the parents knew where they were and knew if any thing came up there was another parent close by to give a holler so that the old neighborhood that i like