Recycling Tips

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.
Carlisle Borough reminds residents of recycling rules
April 3rd 2019
Cardboard, plastic and paper are items you typically recycle, but one disposal service is rejecting items that don't belong in the bins.
Clarendon Hills residents to see slight increase for recycling, yard waste pick up
April 2nd 2019
Clarendon Hills residents will pay 70 cents a month more for trash/recycling pickup for one year, starting July 1, based on an 18-month extension to…
Windsor’s recycling center has new rules after misuse caused town to consider closing it
April 1st 2019
The town of Windsor will require proof of residency to use its recycling center starting this week, after the town says misuse and use by…
County Spending Almost $1 Million To Ship Recycling Out of State
March 29th 2019
Montgomery falls short of recycling goals, waste processing facilities don’t have enough capacity
2018 Ferrous Metal Recycling Sees Strong Growth
March 29th 2019
The U.S. processed 66 billion tons of ferrous scrap worth $15.9 billion in 2017. Last year, despite China’s ban on most scrap imports, the U.S.…
Blaine County resumes a re-focused paper recycling program
March 28th 2019
Effective April 1, Blaine County will resume paper recycling with a re-focused program processing newspaper, printer and copier paper only.
Plastic bags pollute recycling bins
March 28th 2019
St. Louis, like the rest of the country, is seeing the effects of too much contamination in recycling. China has stopped accepting recycling from the…
Tucson may temporarily stop recycling glass, newspapers
March 26th 2019
A southern Arizona city may temporarily stop taking its residents’ glass bottles and newspapers due to sharply escalating financial losses in the recycling program.
New Quincy recycling program to remain as an opt-in; new decals to go on orange bins
March 26th 2019
After much controversy during the past few months, Quincy's city council finally reached a consensus Monday night about the future for recycling.
Dothan reopens recycling centers under new manned format
March 25th 2019
The recycling centers at Westgate Park and the city’s landfill on Burkett Road recently reopened after a three-month hiatus
Environmental organization looks to plastic recycling alternatives
March 25th 2019
On Thursday, Sonoco Recycling announced they will no longer recycle plastics or glass. Sonoco Recycling services Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro.
Harrison hosting ‘Too Toxic to Trash’ recycling collections in April
March 22nd 2019
Registration is open for Harrison’s “Too Toxic to Trash” recycling collection events for household hazardous and electronic waste in April.
Recycling drying up in Ascension Parish
March 22nd 2019
Two national waste collection companies are making big changes to their recycling services in the unincorporated parts of the parish. Waste Pro will soon increase…
Gillette launches recycling campaign to keep razors out of landfills
March 21st 2019
Gillette has announced plans to launch the first national program to fully recycle used razors.
County’s Recycling Costs Continue to Rise, Glass’s Future Still Uncertain
March 21st 2019
Arlington County's costs for recycling is continuing to rise after a Chinese ban last year, officials say, but most of what residents place in the…
More trash, more cash: City wants $6M for landfill while recycling program struggles
March 20th 2019
“If Phase Three doesn’t get built, we’re going to run out of space within a year,” Nashua Alderman Ernest Jette said of the landfill during…
Recycling worker injured in Oakland explosion
March 20th 2019
The explosion happened while materials were being processed on a truck