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 […]
The Regional Recycling & Waste Reduction District (the District) is requesting competitive sealed bids to establish a projects-only contract for the purchase and delivery of specific personal services. Individual invitations to bid for providing these personal services are found at the following links: District ITB Digital District ITB Production District ITB Public Relations District ITB […]
by Emily Walkenhorst, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette January 17, 2019 Recyclers in Pulaski County soon will be able to take their glass to five stations throughout the county, Regional Recycling and Waste Reduction District Director Craig Douglass said. The district has yet to determine when the bins for glass will be available, but Douglass said it could […]
Some of the items moving off the shelf the fastest this holiday season were household electronics: TVs, computers, tablets and game stations. And more will be sold in the next month due to after-holiday sales. Out with the old, in with the new. But wait! Don’t trash your old electronics. Instead, drop them off for […]
by Emily Walkenhorst | December 3, 2018, Arkansasonline.com Whether Waste Management can increase customer recycling prices based on changes in “foreign law” is at the core of the negotiations over the company’s new recycling contract with three central Arkansas cities. The mayors of Little Rock, North Little Rock and Sherwood have yet to agree to […]
by Craig Douglass on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 National Recycling Day was marked last month as it has been every year since 1997. This annual observance is sponsored by Keep America Beautiful with the objective of encouraging Americans to buy recycled products. “By reducing our waste and increasing our recycling, we can convert waste into […]
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas Residents throughout Pulaski County regularly use their green and yellow recycling carts to recycle plastic bottles, paper, cardboard and cans. But this weekend, green will turn pink and blue as the Regional Recycling District in Pulaski County and the Little Rock Public Works Department provide pink recycling carts for this Saturday’s annual […]
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sunday, October 21, 2018 An application has been accepted from C.A.R.D.S. (Central Arkansas Recycling and Disposal Services) to expand landfill operations at their site. The current Class 4 Landfill property located at 9611 Ironton Road, Little Rock, Arkansas 72206, is approximately 62 acres with 20 acres permitted for waste disposal and is located […]
The electronics you use – smartphones, computers and printers, old TVs and monitors, VCRs – are modern wonders, but they wear out, and the technology changes making them obsolete. These devices also contain toxic chemicals, like mercury and lead. Those chemicals shouldn’t go in a landfill. And electronics can be recycled. So, don’t put them […]
NEWS RELEASE For more information, contact Desi Ledbetter, 501-840-3737; desi@regionalrecycling.org LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Sept. 12, 2018) – Environmental Specialist Calvin Wilson has joined the Regional Recycling & Waste Reduction District in Pulaski County as its second Illegal Dumps Control Officer (IDCO). Desi Ledbetter, Chief Operating Officer of the District, is also licensed as an IDCO. […]