Fairfax County's EnviroPod

This edition of the EnviroPod podcast(episode 41) features Ellie Codding, Deputy Director of Stormwater and Wastewater Divisions, discussing Fairfax County's stormwater and wastewater management in Fairfax County. If you have an idea for a topic to be discussed on EnviroPod, email [email protected] The Department of Public Works and Environmental Services builds and maintains safe, reliable infrastructure that improves public health and provides a high quality of life for residents. The department’s four business areas -– Solid Waste Management, Capital Facilities, Wastewater Management, and Stormwater Management –- work together to create and preserve sustainable communities. Learn more about DPWES at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks.

This edition of the EnviroPod podcast(episode 40) features Joan Allen, Forest Pest Branch Chief, discussing the growing threat of the Spotted Lanternfly in Fairfax County. If you have an idea for a topic to be discussed on EnviroPod, email [email protected] The Department of Public Works and Environmental Services builds and maintains safe, reliable infrastructure that improves public health and provides a high quality of life for residents. The department’s four business areas -– Solid Waste Management, Capital Facilities, Wastewater Management, and Stormwater Management –- work together to create and preserve sustainable communities. Learn more about DPWES at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks.

This edition of the EnviroPod podcast(episode 39) features Solid Waste Operations Division Director Hans Christensen, with EnviroPod host Bob Demarco, talking about how Fairfax County solid waste collection trucks are going electric. This move is a part of the county’s desire to become carbon neutral by 2040. Listen and learn about the new trucks that are arriving soon. If you have an idea for a topic to be discussed on EnviroPod, email [email protected] The Department of Public Works and Environmental Services builds and maintains safe, reliable infrastructure that improves public health and provides a high quality of life for residents. The department’s four business areas -– Solid Waste Management, Capital Facilities, Wastewater Management, and Stormwater Management –- work together to create and preserve sustainable communities. Learn more about DPWES at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks.

This edition of the EnviroPod podcast(episode 38) features Saurabh Raje and Catie Torgersen discussing flooding in Fairfax County and Flood Awareness Week, EnviroPod features subject matter experts from the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services talking about important environmental topics focused on what residents can do and what the county is doing to fulfill its environmental vision. If you have an idea for a topic to be discussed on EnviroPod, email [email protected] The Department of Public Works and Environmental Services builds and maintains safe, reliable infrastructure that improves public health and provides a high quality of life for residents. The department’s four business areas -– Solid Waste Management, Capital Facilities, Wastewater Management, and Stormwater Management –- work together to create and preserve sustainable communities. Learn more about DPWES at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks.

As winter gradually draws to an end, residents have begun sprucing up their yards for spring and summer. In the latest installment of EnviroPod, DPWES Solid Waste Management representative Charlie Forbes joins podcast host Bob DeMarco to talk about the best ways to dispose of yard waste and county guidelines in doing so.

In this special holiday edition of EnviroPod, Solid Waste Management Program Outreach and Engagement team member, Christine McCoy and EnviroPod host, Robert DeMarco, discuss holiday waste prevention strategies including purchasing a live tree that can be planted after the holiday; baking cookies or gifting experiences rather than buying gifts; eliminating tinsel and glitter; and recycling shipping packaging such as cardboard and plastic film.

On this edition of EviroPod we talk with Danielle Wynne of Stormwater Management about the Revitalize, Restore, Replant Program

The Department of Public Works and Environmental Services podcast, EnviroPod, helps you learn more about the department’s environmental work. In our latest installment, episode #34, host Bob DeMarco talks with DPWES Recycling Coordinator Erica Carter about the county's successful Farmers Market Composting program, how it works, and how you can participate.

Host Bob DeMarco and Engineer IV Vrushali Oak, Building Design and Construction Division, DPWES, talk about green buildings and why this type of construction is valuable for decreasing the effects of greenhouse gasses.

Joan Allen, Urban Forester and Branch Chief, Urban Forest Management Division, talks with host Bob DeMarco about the invasive insect known as the spotted lanternfly, and the damage it causes to grapes, fruit trees, hops and many other agricultural plants -- but it is not in Fairfax County...yet.