News Topic: Recycling

News Topic(s): What's New  Waste  Recycling  News!  John Tuma  

09/10/2010 - The Twin Cities is blessed to have a group of true innovators making a difference in our recycling business at the turn of the 21st century: Eureka Recycling.  Eureka Recycling is being recognized as conservation champions by Conservation Minnesota because they are innovators making sure that quality recycling is happening in what is often a rough-and-tumble world of waste business, not unlike the creamery business at the turn of the previous century.

News Topic(s): What's New  Waste  Recycling  

07/26/2010 - Beginning Oct. 1, all health care facilities will be subject to full enforcement of hazardous waste regulations, including the possibility of financial penalties for noncompliance.

News Topic(s): What's New  Recycling  

05/04/2010 -

Last Thursday wasn’t a typical day at the office for the senior management executives at Douglas Machine in Alexandria.

They were scrounging through the garbage.

But it was all for a good cause – Earth Day.

News Topic(s): Staff Picks  Recycling  News!  Liz  

04/02/2010 - Tonight is a big night for sports fans in Minnesota.  Hopefully the weather won’t keep the Twins off the field for the first scheduled pre-season game in their new home.  What you may, or may not, have heard about at Target Field are the new green elements of the new stadium or the efforts being made to gain LEED certification.  The new baseball stadium is not the first Minnesota sports facility to incorporate sustainable and eco-conscious elements.

Last weekend I was at the Xcel Center, not for a Wild game, bur rather for a Black Eyed Peas concert.  That evening I found out about Xcel’s new 50-50 in 2 initiative.   Basically in the next two years the Xcel center in conjunctions with the Saint Paul RiverCentre, The Legendary Roy Wilkins Auditorium and 317 on Rice Park, will be working to reduce trash by 50% and increase recycling rate to 50%.

News Topic(s): What's New  Waste  Recycling  Minnesota Stories  Kristin  

03/24/2010 - There’s an effort underway to add a deposit to beverage cans and bottles in Minnesota.

The deposit would be paid when you buy your beer or pop and you would get it back when you return the empty cans and bottles to the store or machine that accepts them. When I first heard about this effort my initial reaction was that it was unnecessary. We had enacted this deposit system in Iowa years ago (actually I looked it up and it was 1979 -- that’s 31 years ago!) and, while I thought it was hugely successful there it seemed like this system shouldn’t be necessary any longer. Doesn’t everyone recycle? Next