by Stacy Ryburn | June 2, 2019 at 2:46 a.m.Photo by David GottschalkArkansas Democrat-Gazette FAYETTEVILLE — City administrators want to curtail using plastic bags and polystyrene foam containers, but they plan to hear from restaurant and grocery store owners first. The City Council on Tuesday will consider exploring the city’s regulation of single-use, or disposable, […]
Electronics need to be recycled. And household hazardous waste should always be properly disposed of. That’s why the Regional Recycling District offers convenient Green Stations to drop off these items so they can either be recycled or otherwise safely eliminated from the environment. Our objective is two-fold: To encourage and facilitate effective and efficient recycling […]
The Regional Recycling District in Pulaski County has been asked by ADEQ, along with other districts, to submit a proposal to manage a statewide extra-large tire collection, transporting, processing, and recycling program. Below are the Invitations To Bid (ITB) as part of that proposal (just click on the links to view and/or download the PDFs). […]
Electronics need to be recycled. And household hazardous waste should always be properly disposed of. That’s why the Regional Recycling District offers convenient Green Stations to drop off these items so they can either be recycled or otherwise safely eliminated from the environment. Our objective is two-fold: To encourage and facilitate effective and efficient recycling […]
Don’t miss the great new exhibit at the Clinton Presidential Center this summer. It’s called “Washed Ashore,” and it features sculptures made of plastic and other materials retrieved from our oceans and on this country’s many beaches. It’s impressive for two reasons: First, the creativity exhibited in these interactive sculptures is worth seeing and experiencing. […]
It’s now official, and effective immediately: Waste Management will no longer accept glass in your curbside recycle cart. The problem’s not that glass isn’t recyclable. It is. The problem is glass breaks! And when it breaks inside your cart or inside the recycle truck, it can mix in with the other recyclable items in your […]
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 […]