Niles To Roll Out Free Textile Recycling Program

Village trustees signed a contract with Great Lakes Recycling, which runs Simple Recycling, at their April 24 board meeting. The contract is expected to earn the village $900 in direct revenue and save Niles taxpayers nearly $28,000 by diverting nearly 600 tons of trash from landfills each year.

Cartoon Quickdraw: The Pensacola recycling lie!

Like a great frog and environmentalist once said, “It ain’t easy being green.” Especially if you lie to taxpayers about it. Under Mayor Ashton Hayward’s watch, the city of Pensacola has been lying to citizens by encouraging them to recycle, billing them for recycling collection services, and then dumping the …

Blocks put on Sandycroft recycling site after fire

Environmental officials have stopped further work from being carried out at a Flintshire recycling plant following a big fire. Firefighters spent two days last week tackling a plastics blaze at Factory Road, Sandycroft. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said the decision was taken after “officers found that the …