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 | Jan 30, 2018 | Community Projects, Food Waste, Local Heroes, Reduce
Recently we learned about a new food waste reduction program started by Charles Mahoney, a senior at Culver Academies. You can read more about it here! Charles is helping his school divert extra food into microwaveable meals that are shared with Meals on Wheels and...
