Recycling glass is the right thing to do. It provides raw materials for new products and avoids landfill waste. But glass is difficult to process when mixed in with other recyclable items. In fact, broken glass in your curbside cart can prevent other recyclables like paper, cardboard, cans, and plastic bottles from being recycled. So, […]
China shuts export door, so firms learn to take trash out of the material stream By Sarah Campbell-MillerSCampbell@ABPG.com Recyclers doing business in Arkansas are educating customers, reworking contracts and focusing more on customer needs as the industry reels from low prices and the loss of a huge market. What happened? The problems started in January […]
By Walter Wright, Jr., wwright@mwlaw.com, (501) 688.8839 The National Waste & Recycling Association (“NWRA”) issued a February 2019 Issue Brief titled: Recyclables: Changing Markets (“Issue Brief”). A key focus of the Issue Brief is the impact of China’s establishment of a ban and imposition of strict quality standards on recyclable materials on the United States’ […]
For more information, contact:Craig Douglass, 501-580-1608;Tiffany Dunn, 501-776-2533craig@regionalrecycling.orgtiffany@recyclesaline.org LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (February 11, 2019) – A public recycling event will be conducted on Saturday, Feb. 23, by the Regional Recycling District in Pulaski County and Recycle Saline, the solid waste management district in Saline County. The two-county joint drop-off and collection event will be limited […]
American Composting™, Inc., (ACI) is the dominant organics recycler in the state of Arkansas. In fact, ACI is one of the largest recyclers of organic wastes and by-products in the South Central region of the United States. We take materials capable of causing pollution (if land filled) and turn them into the best garden and […]
If you’ve got an old TV, particularly one with a tube in it, get rid of that dinosaur for FREE at our special TV recycling event on Saturday, Feb. 23, in Little Rock and Benton. We’ll be collecting old TVs, flat screens and monitors – including computer monitors – and recycling them for FREE. It’s […]