by Marianne Peters | Jul 23, 2018 | Adult Outreach, Director's Blog, Environmental Education, Recycling, Reduce, Trash/Waste
By now, you may have heard the U. S. recycling industry has hit a speed bump. In the last couple of years, our biggest recyclable materials importer, China, has shifted a lot of its manufacturing to other Asian countries. It no longer requires as much raw material as...
by Marianne Peters | May 25, 2018 | Adult Outreach, Open Burning, Recycling, Reduce, Trash/Waste, Uncategorized
Depot patrons who tell me they burn their trash are often surprised when I remind them that open trash burning is illegal in Indiana. Illegal, as in “against the law.” The most common response I receive is “We’ve burned our trash for fifty years!” And that’s...
by Marianne Peters | Dec 29, 2017 | Batteries, General, Household Hazardous Waste, Recycling, Uncategorized
As of January 1st, the Recycle Depot will stop taking alkaline batteries. Like latex paint, they are non-hazardous and costly for us to recycle. We are encouraging our customers to ease away from disposable one-time-use batteries and try rechargeable batteries....
by Marianne Peters | Dec 18, 2017 | Adult Outreach, Batteries, Director's Blog, General, Household Hazardous Waste, Paint, Recycling, Trash/Waste
The new year is nearly here, and we are making a few changes at the Depot starting January 1st. Here’s a brief outline, but the changes will be going up on the website soon. Starting January 1, 2018: Car and truck passenger tires off the rim will cost $2. (All...
by Marianne Peters | Nov 30, 2017 | Batteries, Depot Dispatch, Environmental Education, General, paper shredding, Recycling, School and Youth Programs, Uncategorized
Here’s the Depot Dispatch for December! News about the Grateful Shred, a new alkaline battery policy, and pictures of fun educational programs from last month!
by Marianne Peters | Nov 17, 2017 | Adult Outreach, Community Projects, General, Recycling
Plastic grocery bags are everywhere. While many of us try to reuse or recycle them, lots of bags end up polluting ditches, clinging to fence rows, or blowing in the breeze like plastic tumbleweeds. Even the companies who do curbside recycling don’t like...
