Proposal aims to increase oversight and reduce dumps By Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas Democrat-Gazette This article was published today at 5:30 a.m. Updated today at 10:47 a.m. Lawmakers will hear a proposal today to implement a new scrap tire system designed to increase oversight of tire programs that receive grants and to reduce tire dumps across […]
By Dan Holtmeyer ArkansasOnline FAYETTEVILLE — A global disruption in the market for recycled plastic bottles, paper and other materials has reached Northwest Arkansas, leaving one recycler with 200,000 pounds of cardboard waiting for a higher sale price and another paying paper mills to take its paper. The region’s cities and companies are still accepting […]
TAMPA — ABC Action News has uncovered new information about the fire that shut down Tampa’s largest recycling plant. We took our cameras behind the machines uncovering the one mistake that sparked the flames. So many people recycle the wrong things that Waste Management Recycle Tampa is on a schedule. Eight times a day they […]
The Wall Street Journal By Bob Tita May 13, 2018 “Recycling as we know it isn’t working,” said James Warner, chief executive of the Solid Waste Management Authority in Lancaster County, PA. There’s always been ups and downs in the market, but this is the biggest disruption that I can recall.” Click the link to […]
The Regional Recycling & Waste Reduction District in Pulaski County has a new website: www.RegionalRecycling.org. The purpose of the site is to help fulfill the district’s vision statement, which says, in part, “to inform and challenge local Arkansans to achieve maximum waste reduction, reuse and recycling,” through effective education and action. “The vision statement is […]
Pulaski County residents and businesses unplugged 81 tons of obsolete electronics equipment and dropped them off at last week’s special electronics recycling collection. Called Electronics Recycling Unplugged, the Regional Recycling District in Pulaski County collected everything from computers, copiers and printers to old televisions, hair dryers and toasters. The twice-yearly event was held April 25 […]
