LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Tuesday, November 20, 2018) The Regional Recycling District in Pulaski County recently challenged public and private schools throughout the county to create or expand recycling education in their schools. The challenge was in the form of a school-grant contest for the best education campaigns about each school’s recycling program. An award of […]
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. […]
With more and more of us shopping online, we find cardboard boxes on our doorsteps as often as mail in our mailboxes. So, remember: cardboard is recyclable. In fact, it is one of the most recyclable items in the waste stream. Recycling cardboard conserves energy and natural resources, and helps reduce the pollution of sulfur […]
by Associated Press on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 CINCINNATI — The nation’s largest grocery chain has begun to phase out the use of plastic bags as more Americans grow uncomfortable with their impact on the environment. Kroger Co. will start Thursday at its QFC stores in and around Seattle, with the goal of using no […]
Originally published by CBS NEWS August 5, 2018 Click on the video below to play! Piece by piece, an environmental threat is piling up, and we’re ALL to blame. Worse yet, even those of us trying to bring an end to the problem may not be doing as much good as we think. David Pogue […]