Top tips for recycling your household rubbish, reducing your waste, and reusing whenever possible. There are little things each of us can do to help preserve and protect the environment. Being careful to recycle the right items in the correct way will ensure the recycling process is as efficient as possible.
St. Charles residents and businesses can drop off holiday lights (working or non-working) and extension cords to be recycled. Elgin Recycling will haul them away at no cost. In past collections, a ton of lights…
The City of Charlotte is participating in string and holiday lights recycling. They are reminding residents that string and holiday lights do not go into regular curbside recycling bins.
The City had switched to single-stream recycling, which allowed residents to place paper products, cardboard, plastic bottles and jugs, metal cans and glass jars and bottles together in a bin.
As we prepare for the many end-of-the-year festivities, and the heaps of holiday wrapping, cardboard boxes and ribbon that will be generated, it is the ideal time to discuss the importance of recycling.
Following weeks of discussion and research that included a fact-finding field trip to the recycling plant by City Commissioner Jude Bond, officials on Nov. 9 decided on the future of the city’s curbside recycling program.