City Ignores Weird Name Ideas for Solid Waste Services
When the city polled people online for a name to replace “Solid Waste Services Department”, Austinites came up with some whimsical suggestions: The Ministry of Filth, the Department of Neat and Clean,...
View ArticleBlowing in the Wind: A Plastic Bag Ban Timeline
Plans to phase out single-use plastic bags at Austin retailers are still up in the air.Austin Resource Recovery, the department tasked with drafting an ordinance banning the bags, has drafted and...
View ArticleWhat’s Changed in the Latest Bag Ban Proposal?
Austin Resource Recovery (ARR) presented their newest draft of a disposable bag ban to the City Council today.So what’s changed since the proposal was last floated?ARR director Bob Gedert initially...
View ArticleAustin Expands Recycling Program
Every year Austin adds a new material to its recycling stream. This year it’s aluminum. Tin foil and baking pans can now go in the blue single stream recycling containers for pickup.The materials...
View ArticleAustin Resource Recovery Wheels Out Pilot Compost Program
The brown bin and the blue bin have company: The green bin, for compost.Austin Resource Recovery customers are familiar with the trash bin (the brown one) and the recycling bin (the blue container)....
View ArticleAustin Businesses Prep for Bag Ban
Austin’sban on some single-use bags goes into effect in just over three weeks. Today, area businesses will get training on the new bag rules.The city is holding two training sessions for restaurants,...
View ArticleGrass is Greener for Austin's Zero Waste Future
Austin’s one of the few cities in Texas where you might start composting to avoid being ostracized by friends.Whether its groundwater, tap water, urban farming, salamander saving or the bag ban, the...
View ArticleAll Austin Restaurants Will Start Composting Food Scraps by 2017
Taking out the trash is a thing of the past: All Austin restaurants will have to start composting by 2017, and restaurants 5,000 square feet and up only have until 2016. The Austin City Council...
View Article'Trash Dance:' Documentary Puts Austin Waste Workers in Limelight
If the film "Trash Dance" has a mantra, it’s simple: Power to the people. Those people and that power, however, don’t conjure up the familiar themes of power through politics but, strangely enough,...
View ArticleCity Ignores Weird Name Ideas for Solid Waste Services
When the city polled people online for a name to replace “Solid Waste Services Department”, Austinites came up with some whimsical suggestions: The Ministry of Filth, the Department of Neat and Clean,...
View ArticleBlowing in the Wind: A Plastic Bag Ban Timeline
Plans to phase out single-use plastic bags at Austin retailers are still up in the air.Austin Resource Recovery, the department tasked with drafting an ordinance banning the bags, has drafted and...
View ArticleWhat’s Changed in the Latest Bag Ban Proposal?
Austin Resource Recovery (ARR) presented their newest draft of a disposable bag ban to the City Council today.So what’s changed since the proposal was last floated?ARR director Bob Gedert initially...
View ArticleAustin Expands Recycling Program
Every year Austin adds a new material to its recycling stream. This year it’s aluminum. Tin foil and baking pans can now go in the blue single stream recycling containers for pickup.The materials...
View ArticleAustin Resource Recovery Wheels Out Pilot Compost Program
The brown bin and the blue bin have company: The green bin, for compost.Austin Resource Recovery customers are familiar with the trash bin (the brown one) and the recycling bin (the blue container)....
View ArticleAustin Businesses Prep for Bag Ban
Austin’sban on some single-use bags goes into effect in just over three weeks. Today, area businesses will get training on the new bag rules.The city is holding two training sessions for restaurants,...
View ArticleGrass is Greener for Austin's Zero Waste Future
Austin’s one of the few cities in Texas where you might start composting to avoid being ostracized by friends.Whether its groundwater, tap water, urban farming, salamander saving or the bag ban, the...
View ArticleAll Austin Restaurants Will Start Composting Food Scraps by 2017
Taking out the trash is a thing of the past: All Austin restaurants will have to start composting by 2017, and restaurants 5,000 square feet and up only have until 2016. The Austin City Council...
View Article'Trash Dance:' Documentary Puts Austin Waste Workers in Limelight
If the film "Trash Dance" has a mantra, it’s simple: Power to the people. Those people and that power, however, don’t conjure up the familiar themes of power through politics but, strangely enough,...
View ArticleStarting Today, 680 Austin Apartment Complexes Have to Offer Recycling
Beginning today, a total of 680 Austin apartment complexes – serving approximately 140,000 households – must offer recycling.It's the second phase of the City of Austin’s Universal Recycling Ordinance,...
View ArticleTake an Austin Composting Class, Get a Cheap Compost System
The City of Austin wants to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills by encouraging residents to compost. Free composting classes are being offered online and throughout Austin. Since the program’s...
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