River City Recycling

How to Recycle Fluorescent Tubes

Looking for a place to recycle fluorescent tubes? Use the recycling search tool found at the end of this article to find a recycling location near you.

What Can You Throw in a Dumpster?

Wondering what you can put in a dumpster rental? Use our list to learn exactly what can go in a dumpster and get tips for how to dispose of items that can't.

How to Sort Scrap Metal

Selling scrap metal can be a great way to supplement your income, or you can do it full time. Before you can sell your scrap metal to a scrap yard, you need to separate the different metals in your scrap. A scrap magnet will help you...

This Is Why You Have So Much Trouble Recycling

Here's How to Price Scrap Metal

Learn about the steps necessary to price scrap metal properly, including tips on identification and market resources.

How to Sell Scrap Metal for Money

Many millions of tons of scrap is sitting unused in garages and basements, but taking that haul to the scrapyard to sell can be an intimidating process. We walk you through our own trip to sell some steel at a Detroit area scrapyard.

Solid waste disposal more than doubles EPA estimates

A new Yale-led study indicates that we’re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were.

Is additive manufacturing the key to achieving zero landfill waste?

With Eaton’s growing involvement in additive manufacturing for the aerospace sector, its waste reduction capabilities are also being considered.

15 Easy Ways To Reduce Landfill Waste

There are lot of items that we use everyday and then get rid of them by throwing them in the

Options for cleaning up solid waste at AltEn being explored, but questions remain

Efforts to dispose of wastewater at AltEn are continuing, but the question of how to get rid of 99,000 tons of solid waste at the former ethanol plant remains open.

When Is a Solid Waste Not a Solid Waste? An Eternal Question

This year, EPA has proposed a rule to regulate GHG emissions from existing sources, the legality of which turns, in significant part, on the meaning of a

Recycling Made Easy (Solid Waste)

Recycling 101 What to do ... Quick overview of recycling guidelines

Food scraps transfer building to be constructed at Recycling and Solid Waste Center

The building will be used to transfer source-separated commercial food scraps for composting.

Solid Waste Ratemaking: The Whys and How

Cost of service studies are an essential tool in managing a solid waste agency in these uncertain times. They provide opportunities for introduction of

How Solid Waste Is Doing You a Solid

Instead of filling our landfills with toxic animal poop, these innovative solutions might be another way to deal with the grubby facts of life.

Hazardous Waste Treatment: Onsite, Transfer Station or Landfill?

Hazardous waste has properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment because it is generated

How solid waste put aquaculture systems at risk

Solid waste is the most harmful type of waste in fish culture systems, according to a recent report. The two major sources of solid wastes in aquaculture

How Textile Recycling Can Help Slash Emissions, Pollution and Landfill

Textiles account for 10 percent of global carbon emissions. The industry is the world’s second-biggest industrial polluter, behind oil. In Australia, an

Can Design Help Prevent Electronic Waste From Ending Up in a Landfill?

The research-driven approach of design duo Studio Formafantasma might typically result in beautiful, poetic objects ranging from lighting and vessels to

Solid Waste Rate Analysis: Lessons Learned from Recent Rate Setting

An effective rate study may aid in appropriately funding solid waste services, preventing substandard service levels, replenishing solid waste reserves,