First, it goes to Northwest Recycling Inc. center at 1419 C St. in Bellingham, where all of Whatcom County’s curbside recycling from residences and …
Here’s why most Whatcom recycling isn’t ending up in landfills, despite China’s ban
Marty Kuljis has heard the questions before. Why can’t Whatcom County residents and businesses be allowed to dump all of their recycling into one …
With China’s new rules about recycling, we need to clean it up
This season of paper plates, wedding invitations, takeout food and on-the-go activities, however, can make it easy to get sloppy with recycling.
Cities scramble to rewrite rules on recycling after China stops taking ‘foreign garbage’
At this spring’s “ContaminationFest 2018” in Tacoma, recycling advocates displayed the kinds of trash that some people mistakenly toss into their blue …
Proposal to save with local recycling plant: Salvage our dollars
MILDURA Council will reconsider the need for a local materials recycling facility (MRF), just four years after it ended a contract with Mildura Bottle …
Compost for tip-top garden
Many people are deterred by our climate, soil, wind, lack of water, altitude, and short growing season. Composting can’t fix all of these problems, but it …
Tropical Gardening: Composting and mulching to build healthy soils from scratch
The eruption in Leilani Estates and lava river has destroyed thousands of acres of farms, homes and forests, but once the lava cools, life returns with …
Composting and mulching to build healthy soils from scratch
With thousands of acres covered with lava in just a few weeks, it is hard to imagine they will ever support vegetation again, at least in our lifetime.
Olympia cuts back on business composting, sending more stuff to the dump
For years the county paid to have materials that Silver Springs wouldn’t take hauled to a different composting facility in Snohomish County. That ended …
Himachal to access vulnerability of villages towards climate change
Himachal Pradesh government will soon study the vulnerability of all villages of the state towards climate change after which adaptation projects …