Last year through the city’s program, more than 17,000 Christmas trees were composted. That means about 640,000 pounds of organic waste was …
Fire at Longview compost site smoldering as majority of fuel turns to ash
LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) – The fire burning at a compost site in Longview for more than two weeks has died down to a smolder, as the amount of …
Municipalities begin to utilize new organic waste strategies
The higher the cost of disposing of waste at the local landfill, the easier it is to justify the cost of a community food waste composting program.”.
What to do with your Christmas tree after the holidays
Many cities and counties collect and chip the Christmas trees into mulch or compost that is used to spruce up community parks, roadway plantings and …
Backyard Wildlife
If you’re looking for a way to lower your impact on the environment, consider composting. If you already compost, you can expand what you choose to …
McAllen accepting Christmas trees for recycling
The city is accepting natural Christmas trees, which Composting Supervisor Liza Valdez says will be turned into a special pine mulch that should be …
Harbingers of mindset change
We have two big plastic bins for composting. We segregate the domestic waste at the household level and give it to an errand boy, who collects this …
Compost that tree, but watch the recycling
Trees can be taken to the Olmsted County compost site, across from the recycling center at 305 Silver Creek Road NE, any day of the week during …
Mandatory brown bin collections could be introduced under new waste strategy
The contents of brown bins are instead used to produce compost. In 2017, Burton’s predecessor, Denis Naughten, increased the availability of brown …
Bio mining on, dumping in Ariyamangalam to stop
Out of this, Ariyamangalam handles about 120 tonnes of waste and the rest is given to micro-composting centres of the civic body. But from January 15