by Marianne Peters | Aug 16, 2024 | Calendar, General, Recycling
The Recycle Depot will be closed all day Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, August 31 – September 2, for Labor Day Weekend.
by Marianne Peters | Jun 5, 2024 | Electronic waste, Recycling
Beginning July 1st, the Marshall County Recycle Depot will ask county residents, businesses, and schools to pay a fee to drop off their old TVs and computer monitors. Any television or monitor with a screen under 32 inches will cost $10.00; any TV or monitor with a...
by Marianne Peters | Sep 6, 2023 | Recycling
The Recycle Depot takes scrap tires from Marshall County residents as a service to those residents trying to dispose of tires on their property. However, by unanimous Board of Directors’ decision on September 5th, the Depot will no longer be accepting tires from...
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....
