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Recycling Tips

Top tips for recycling your household rubbish, reducing your waste, and reusing whenever possible. There are little things each of us can do to help preserve and protect the environment. Being careful to recycle the right items in the correct way will ensure the recycling process is as efficient as possible.
Recycling centers across Bay Area shut down
August 8th 2019
State's largest company announces closure, shutters 11 local sites
California’s largest recycling center business, RePlanet, shuts down
August 6th 2019
California’s largest operator of recycling redemption centers has shut down and laid off 750 employees.
Recycling crisis escalates as another Victorian recycling firm gets waste ban
August 5th 2019
Phoenix Environmental Group banned by EPA from accepting rubbish at its Coolaroo facility
Petersburg officials look at changes to curbside recycling program
August 2nd 2019
Markets for Petersburg’s recycled materials have not improved and borough officials think the borough assembly could consider changes to the recycling program for next year.
Gretna's curbside recycling program to continue, but will be scaled back
August 1st 2019
Curbside residential recycling will continue in Gretna and the Timberlane subdivision, but on the same scaled-back basis announced by Jefferson Parish in June.
Frederick County eyes Martinsburg-based Apple Valley Waste for recycling services
July 31st 2019
The Frederick County Public Works department is planning to sign a contract with a Martinsburg, W.Va.-based company to provide recycling services next year, after its…
Bangor will close local recycling station as part of city’s switch to new waste plant
July 30th 2019
Bangor residents who have grown accustomed to leaving their recycling at the city’s public works garage at 530 Maine Ave. will no longer be able…
Utah cities ask residents: Are you willing to pay more to recycle?
July 29th 2019
Utahns across the Wasatch Front soon may shoulder an increase in the monthly fees they pay for recycling — a reality prompted by changing global…
America is drowning in garbage. Now robots are being put on duty to help solve the recycling crisis
July 27th 2019
The U.S. is facing a recycling crisis that is burying cities and towns in tens of millions of tons of garbage a day. The situation…
Clear garbage bags may be coming to Wellington curbs
July 27th 2019
Clear garbage bags showing exactly what people are sending out in the trash may be coming curbside to Wellington.
Curbside recycling picked up by city - again
July 25th 2019
City Manager recommends awarding the bid for single stream curbside recycling service to Rumpke of Kentucky Inc. to begin to advertise through the city utility…
Don't put motor oil in the blue bin, and other rules for successful recycling in Reno-area
July 25th 2019
Recycling has never been easier since the adoption of single stream recycling in February 2017. But Washoe County recycling customers are still learning the ins…
Pittsburgh’s New Electronic, Hazardous Waste Recycling Program Begins
July 24th 2019
Today marks the start of a new recycling program in the city of Pittsburgh.
Livonia City Council hears proposal for new 'soft recycling' option
July 24th 2019
If a contract is approved by the council, the service would allow for the putting of items such as clothing and shoes out on the…
The dos and the don'ts: How to recycle properly in Kentucky
July 23rd 2019
You recycle, and that's a good thing. But whether you do it curbside or take loads to a drop-off center, the way you handle your…
UVa continues plastic recycling amid global changes
July 22nd 2019
The University of Virginia will continue to collect and recycle all plastics, even as local authorities and other schools are revising guidelines in the face…
Glass recycling organization offers pickup service
July 22nd 2019
Recycling Works is the only recycling organization in Western Montana and held a drop-off event at Imagine Nation Brewery in Missoula Sunday.