What are Tanglers?Tanglers are items that can become tangled inside the recycle sorting machine and cause the machine to shut down. This is not good! What are Some Common Examples of Tanglers?1. Plastic grocery bags and plastic trash bags.2. Hoses, wires, and ropes.3. Wire hangers.4. Clothing items.5. Anything you can wrap around your arm. How Should […]
We are just seven days away from Christmas and we know you’re out there buying Gifts! Gifts! Gifts! But what happens when you buy a lot of presents? You accumulate a lot of boxes – particularly cardboard boxes. Now that all those boxes are in your home, you have two options: Recycle or Reuse. If […]
It’s that time of year again when we are out buying presents from local stores, having packages delivered to our homes, and shopping endlessly at the grocery store for all the extra people in our home. But because of all this, more cardboard products enter our home during the month of December than any other […]
It’s that time of year again when we are out buying presents from local stores, having packages delivered to our homes, and shopping endlessly at the grocery store for all the extra people in our home. But because of all this, more cardboard products enter our home during the month of December than any other […]
Jefferson Elementary for Cammack Village and Kingwood residents! Saturday, December 2nd 8am-12pm Regional Recycling & Waste Reduction District will have pop-up electronic and glass recycling events throughout Pulaski County. Our goal is to have these events in under-served areas in the county. We want to provide a convenient way for residential customers to recycle glass […]
CRAIG DOUGLASSSPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Recycling has been placed in a metaphorical box. Sadly, the promotion of recycling’s benefits has been limited to environmental. It’s past time to break down the box and recycle its cardboard walls. Recycling is economic development. Environmental benefits parallel this new approach. They are obvious (and have been well promoted […]
We are approaching the holiday season, and with that means more online shopping and more cardboard to recycle. The simple rules are as follows: Break it down. Flatten it out. Fit it inside your cart. 1. You can break down your cardboard boxes by tearing or cutting along the seams of the box, or just […]
These items DO belong in your recycling cart: Empty plastic bottles and jugs, empty aluminum, steel, and tin cans, and paper, cardboard, empty cartons, newspaper, junk mail, and paper board. These items DO NOT belong in your recycling cart: Plastic grocery bags, trash bags, food, food scraps, yard waste, anything that can spoil, clothes, fabric, […]
NOTICE TO BIDDERS District 2 Waste Tire Accountability Program is requesting competitive sealed bids to enter into a term contract for the pick-up, loading, transporting, and processing of waste tires from the District’s 27-county service area. Bids shall be submitted for pick-up/loading/transporting of waste tires to a processor, or for processing only of waste tires […]
Illegal dumps are crime scenes! Dumping trash, tires, bulky items, electronics, and more are against the law. Dumping waste and other material is harmful to the community and is a public health hazard. The Arkansas law allows people to report their knowledge of illegal dumping and dump sites. You can go to ReportDumping.com to help […]