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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.
Radford council clears way for recycling business at former foundry
April 9th 2019
City Council approved a special-use permit allowing a metal recycling facility to operate on a portion of the old foundry site.
With price hike, recycling not worth it for some downtown Raleigh residents
April 9th 2019
For many people, tossing empty plastic bottles, glass jars and cardboard into the recycling is routine. But some local housing complexes say recent U.S. tariffs…
Some Michigan cities may abandon recycling due to higher costs
April 8th 2019
China is not taking as much U.S. recycled material as it has in the past. The Chinese economy is slowing down and it doesn’t need…
Republic Services opens Texas recycling facility
April 8th 2019
The 77,000-square-foot facility serves more than 510,000 residents and 2,500 commercial customers.
City e-waste recycling event returning in May
April 5th 2019
City of Dickinson's electronics waste recycling event returns May 10.
Glass returns to Houston’s curbside recycling program
April 5th 2019
Houston residents can resume putting glass in their curbside recycling bins, city officials said Thursday at the opening of a recycling facility in northeast Houston.
Phoenix partners with recycling companies to turn plastic into fuel
April 4th 2019
The Phoenix Public Works Department’s new partnership with Renew Phoenix plans to turn low-value plastics into fuel.
Vineland crews fighting fire at Giordano's Recycling, water tenders called
April 4th 2019
Firefighters are at Giordano's Recycling at 110 N. Mill Road just north of West Landis Avenue for a 3-alarm fire that was reported shortly after…
Morris County residents urged to pre-sort recycling–otherwise, curbside pickup may be rejected
April 3rd 2019
In an effort to capture only acceptable materials during curbside recycling collection, the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA), will implement a “tag-it and leave-it”…
Carlisle Borough reminds residents of recycling rules
April 3rd 2019
Cardboard, plastic and paper are items you typically recycle, but one disposal service is rejecting items that don't belong in the bins.
Clarendon Hills residents to see slight increase for recycling, yard waste pick up
April 2nd 2019
Clarendon Hills residents will pay 70 cents a month more for trash/recycling pickup for one year, starting July 1, based on an 18-month extension to…
Windsor’s recycling center has new rules after misuse caused town to consider closing it
April 1st 2019
The town of Windsor will require proof of residency to use its recycling center starting this week, after the town says misuse and use by…
County Spending Almost $1 Million To Ship Recycling Out of State
March 29th 2019
Montgomery falls short of recycling goals, waste processing facilities don’t have enough capacity
2018 Ferrous Metal Recycling Sees Strong Growth
March 29th 2019
The U.S. processed 66 billion tons of ferrous scrap worth $15.9 billion in 2017. Last year, despite China’s ban on most scrap imports, the U.S.…
Blaine County resumes a re-focused paper recycling program
March 28th 2019
Effective April 1, Blaine County will resume paper recycling with a re-focused program processing newspaper, printer and copier paper only.
Plastic bags pollute recycling bins
March 28th 2019
St. Louis, like the rest of the country, is seeing the effects of too much contamination in recycling. China has stopped accepting recycling from the…
Tucson may temporarily stop recycling glass, newspapers
March 26th 2019
A southern Arizona city may temporarily stop taking its residents’ glass bottles and newspapers due to sharply escalating financial losses in the recycling program.