PORTLAND, Ore., March 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — With St. Patrick’s Day fast approaching, “green” is on our minds! Spring break – and the season in general – offers a new opportunity to take a look at recycling habits at home and at work. If you’ve been wanting to stepRead More →
Polina Tankilevich (Pexels) This is a joint blog with Tessa Wardle, NRDC Spring 2022 Environmental Health Intern The NRDC has conducted extensive research on “chemical recycling” facilities in the United States with evidence that they were operational or soon to become operational. What we discovered led us to conclude thatRead More →
PORT ANGELES — Glass recycling services and a solid waste transfer station were closed Tuesday as Port Angeles Public Works adjusts to taking over garbage collection and recycling duties from Waste Connections of Washington, based in Texas. Public Works Director Thomas Hunter’s presentation Tuesday at the Port Angeles Business AssociationRead More →
By Lo Chi and Kayleigh Madjar/staff reporter, with a staff writer Students in Taipei have repurposed a campus statue of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) to educate passers-by and other students about the environment by giving the towering bronze a cape made from recyclable materials and a giant QR code. The projectRead More →
YORK COUNTY, Va. — What may look like an ordinary bench is much more. WTKR 3 News “We take plastic bags and other stretch film and consumer film, mix it with hardwood sawdust, extrude it, and make beautiful outdoor decking products.” said Stephanie Hicks, material sourcing manager at the TrexRead More →
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WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) – Watertown Mayor Jeff Smith and Councilman Cliff Olney face off again. This time, the question of single-stream recycling is over. Single-stream recycling allows people to throw all their recyclables into one bin, without having to sort them. It’s a service that Smith hoped to implementRead More →
Tuckahoe Valley Disposal is one of 15 carriers serving the three municipalities on the Intermunicipal Relations Committee, but it’s not among the few to flout the law by dumping recyclables, according to owner Tobias Nagle. Recycling is neither easy nor cheap, but in addition to being mandatory inRead More →
It was around 2010 when Joe Connelly had sold the last of his three salvage and auto parts yards in northeast Ohio and was about to retire. But his son, Michael Connelly, convinced him to start a new business. Joe agreed to join Michael in pursuing an idea that ledRead More →
ENGLISHTOWN – City officials have proposed the creation of a solid waste management department that would handle the collection and disposal of garbage and recyclable materials in Englishtown. On January 26, borough council members voted 4-2 to introduce an ordinance that, if passed, will create the solid waste department. BoardRead More →
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Mixed recycling, or single-stream recycling, is the system in which all plastics, metals, papers and other recyclable materials are mixed together in a single collection truck. This means that residents do not need to sort these recyclables beforehand; they are sorted when they arrive at a material recovery facility (MRF).Read More →
Living in a college dorm brings newfound independence, freedom, and responsibility, and as young adults in the midst of climate catastrophe, many students feel responsible for the environment and creating more sustainable practices. While not solving climate change alone, individual action plays an important role in demonstrating the value ofRead More →
New Bedford Waste Services, which includes a recycling facility at 48 Cranberry Highway in Rochester, is set to be sold to one of the nation’s largest waste disposal companies. The buyer, Waste Connections US Holdings Inc., is the third-largest solid waste management company in North America, with operations in 41Read More →
Yesterday Compology CEO and Co-Founder Jason Gates appeared before the Congressional Recycling Caucus to brief his members on the environmental and economic benefits of counting waste and how it can be deployed at scale to help meet the demands from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Recycling Strategy aims toRead More →
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Recycling company Ridwell has filed a lawsuit against Washington County, claiming the county violated Oregon law by prohibiting the company from collecting materials from areas not county incorporated. In the lawsuit, Ridwell claims they were forced to stop collecting hard-to-recycle materials that Washington County does notRead More →
Since opening in 2015, containers at the Whitefish Central Recycling Site have regularly overflowed with cans and cartons during peak periods, a persistent challenge that has set city officials on a years-long journey to settle on a program compulsory selective collection. With the city’s recent decision to move forward withRead More →
The Manitou Park bench is designed by ByFusion and is half finished. Inside the bench are the contents of the resident’s orange bags. BOISE, Idaho — The City of Boise has partnered with a Los Angeles recycling company, ByFusion, to create a zero-emissions recycling process. ByFusion works with the HeftyRead More →
By Tara CampbellDeputy directorHighland County Community Action Organization, Inc.The Highland County Community Action Organization (HCCAO), together with the Highland County Commissioners and the RPHF Solid Waste District, manages, operates and monitors the county’s waste control and recycling program. HCCAO is in its fourth year of running the program and wantsRead More →
Here are the guidelines for garden waste carts: • Carts cannot be overloaded – the cover must be fully closed and the cart (s) placed squarely on the curb for servicing. • Only 3 carts per residence (limit of 150 lbs each) are eligible for service. • Only 96 gallonRead More →
GEORGETOWN, Texas – The City of Georgetown is offering the recycling of Christmas trees, boxes, wrapping paper and holiday fairy lights to reduce material going to landfill. The city says that if you choose to recycle your tree, please remove the stand and any garlands, ornaments or lights. Artificial treesRead More →
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FL – The curbside recycling service for recyclable materials will resume in St. Augustine Beach starting Jan. 3, the city said on Friday. Important information: Recycling pickup will be on the same day as your garbage pickup day The city only collects 18 gallon blue bins issuedRead More →
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of News Advocate’s Best Stories of the Year compilation (in no particular order) revisiting and recapping Manistee County’s biggest news from 2021. MANISTEE – The County and Town of Manistee recently struggled with their recycling programs. With the accumulation of cardboard boxes at a siteRead More →
A recycling project enables more than 60 residents of Khayelitsha to provide for their families while cleaning up their community. A Khayelitsha-based recycling project gave residents the opportunity to become entrepreneurs. Some of the waste pickers have registered their businesses. The project could soon be extended to other communities acrossRead More →
Derry Transfer Station is full of neatly organized stacks of everything residents don’t want. Old sofas, abandoned Halloween decorations, and tidy mounds of plastic, cardboard, glass and aluminum. Receive NHPR reports on politics, the pandemic, and other hot topics delivered to your inbox – sign up for our newsletter (it’sRead More →
When recycling, how clean must your recyclable materials be? Do they have to be so clean that you can drink them from a glass jar or see through a mayonnaise container? Are metal popcorn boxes recyclable? Can you recycle wrapping paper, holiday gift bags, or cards? Do you need toRead More →
Mark North demonstrates the type of syrofoam foam that the Menard Correctional Center recycling program looks for by standing inside a collection trailer now located in front of the Monroe County Health Department at 1315 Jamie Lane, Waterloo. Between the Black Friday sales and the big gifts, families find themselvesRead More →
Breadcrumb Links Local News Chroniclers Author of the article: Keith gerein The material recovery facility at the Edmonton Waste Management Center. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia, file Content of the article If you’re like me, the pandemic has been a boon to the amount of recyclable material that has enteredRead More →
BUFFALO – A specific messaging strategy used in a Public Service Announcement (PSA) video may effectively encourage New Yorkers struggling to comply with recycling to properly separate their waste from recycling, according to the results of a study from the University of Buffalo. The researchers designed the successful video usingRead More →
Articles in this Regional News Roundup are taken from weekly newspapers across the region. This is the second part, the first having appeared in the Friday’s Tribune. KOOSKIA – After 13 years of operating the Idaho County recycling program in Kooskia with volunteers, the program has been integrated into theRead More →
With the recent focus on the COP26 summit and the need to improve sustainability, first year art and design students chose Roker Beach to create their artwork designed to highlight the importance of waste recycling for help fight climate change and increasing plastic levels in our oceans. Lily Howarth, 16,Read More →
Anne Roberts Young has her own school recycling program, thanks to two environmentally conscious grade 5 students. Two grade 5 students from Anne Roberts Young Elementary School led a new recycling program at the school. Beau Almeida and Evan Nabseth proposed the initiative on their own, consulting with Recycle ItRead More →
Breadcrumb Links New Local News A draft solid waste master plan will be submitted for council approval in the spring of 2022 before the city holds a final round of public consultations. Author of the article: Jon willing Release date : June 17, 2021 • June 17, 2021 • 3Read More →
Starting in July, the Delaware Solid Waste Authority will begin charging recycling carriers when contamination rates exceed 15% of a charge. In anticipation of this change, the carrier that provides recycling services to Rehoboth Beach has increased the cost of its service by 88%. Rehoboth Beach’s contract with Millsboro-based BlueRead More →
The city of Tulsa is sending residential recycling to the incinerator at the moment due to a fire at the local processing facility last week. A lithium-ion battery found its way into the recycling stream, starting a fire at the Tulsa recycling transfer facility, known as TRT. Maureen Turner, theRead More →
Bi-weekly residential recycling collection As of the first week of May 2021, residential customers will see a change in curbside collection of recyclable materials. This is when the City of Spokane Solid Waste Collection Service will switch to a bi-weekly recycling collection. This change will allow the escalating costs ofRead More →
Large-scale commercial demolition projects and building teardowns often lend themselves to straightforward recycling opportunities for contractors. Bulky materials, such as concrete and wood, and high-value materials, such as metal, are systematically handpicked at sites and subsequently recycled. But what happens when a demolition contractor generates materials that are not easilyRead More →
Toronto, Aug 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – When school is in session, if your student is not already overwhelmed with sports, clubs and music programs, then start or help with a school refresher program would be a great curricular, educational extra-activity. Recycling teaches children important lessons about the environmental impactRead More →