Southeast Resource Recovery

How to Recycle Fluorescent Tubes

Looking for a place to recycle fluorescent tubes? Use the recycling search tool found at the end of this article to find a recycling location near you.

Why can't clothes just be recycled?

Tons of textiles end up in landfills every year, and we need a solution.

This Is Why You Have So Much Trouble Recycling

How to Salvage Building Materials: 5 Tips

Keep construction waste out of landfills, reduce building costs, and make your home stand out with these tips on how to salvage building materials.

Solid waste disposal more than doubles EPA estimates

A new Yale-led study indicates that we’re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were.

Food scraps transfer building to be constructed at Recycling and Solid Waste Center

The building will be used to transfer source-separated commercial food scraps for composting.

Options for cleaning up solid waste at AltEn being explored, but questions remain

Efforts to dispose of wastewater at AltEn are continuing, but the question of how to get rid of 99,000 tons of solid waste at the former ethanol plant remains open.

When Is a Solid Waste Not a Solid Waste? An Eternal Question

This year, EPA has proposed a rule to regulate GHG emissions from existing sources, the legality of which turns, in significant part, on the meaning of a

Recycling Made Easy (Solid Waste)

Recycling 101 What to do ... Quick overview of recycling guidelines

Solid Waste Rate Analysis: Lessons Learned from Recent Rate Setting

An effective rate study may aid in appropriately funding solid waste services, preventing substandard service levels, replenishing solid waste reserves,

15 Easy Ways To Reduce Landfill Waste

Reducing solid waste is reducing the amount of trash that goes to landfills. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are most common methods to reduce landfill waste.

How Sanitary Landfills Work

More than half of the garbage generated in the U.S. -- and some recyclabling -- ends up in the landfill. Learn how the modern sanitary landfill works.

What's ahead for the landfill as Salina moves toward a 'Zero Waste' philosophy?

While the Salina Municipal Solid Waste Landfill has 180 more years left, the city is looking at ways to reduce how much is sent there

5 Uses of Thermal Mass Flow Meters to Measure or Monitor Landfill Gas

Thermal mass flow meters excel in measuring and monitoring landfill gas in five areas at landfills or solid waste facilities.

Rapid City Solid Waste finds persistent herbicides in compost

Healthy compost will always contain herbicides that deteriorate before causing harm, but persistent herbicides degrade much slower and last long enough to damage plants, causing plants to curl, slow their growth and kill younger plants.

Why Divert Waste from Landfills?

When we throw away the things we no longer need or want, we make a choice about where that trash goes. Recyclables get made into new produc...

Where Do I Take My?

Where Do I Take My?...<br>Click on the links below to put your unwanted items to good use.<br>Please call the organizations directy to verify:<br>Fees (if any)

Innovation at a landfill, who knew?

You wouldn’t normally associate “creating works of life” at a landfill, but that’s exactly what we did for the City of Hartford. Our engineers developed an innovative approach to cap 35 acres of landfill with a state-of-the-art synthetic capping system that looks like natural grass.

Are U.S. Landfills Twice As Big?

Americans may be recycling far less than originally thought as well. Just how much waste is being sent to landfills? This new study is eye opening.

What Happens Inside a Landfill?

More than half of America's garbage is bound for a landfill. What happens once it gets there?