Recycling program restarts Monday
Starkville residents can begin Monday dropping off certain recyclable materials in a designated bin outside the Sanitation Department offices.
Starkville to contract with Waste Pro for recycling
Starkville is getting back into the recycling business.
Aldermen to consider a new recycling program
Two months after suspending its recycling program, Starkville might get a new one Tuesday that is not expected to be the financial burden to the city that the previous one was.
Starkville considering recycling contract with Waste Pro
When Starkville first paused a recycling program that operated at a financial loss, city leaders considered forming a partnership with Mississippi State University’s program, which has a contract with the Waste Pro USA office in Columbus.
Possible Starkville-MSU recycling partnership starting to take shape
Starkville is considering a partnership with Mississippi State University’s recycling program after the city halted its own program, which operated at a financial loss.
Starkville plans to suspend ‘untenable’ recycling program
The declining market for recyclable materials and the COVID-19 pandemic have led Starkville officials to rethink the usefulness of having a recycling program for the city.
Ad hoc committee aims to promote recycling and increase participation
Less than 10 percent of Starkville residents participate in the city’s recycling program, and an informal committee that formed in February wants the city to start an advertising campaign to encourage greater participation.
Starkville forming ad-hoc recycling committee
Starkville is putting together an informal recycling committee to review the city’s program and look at possible ways to improve it.
Don’t throw that out: Farmers’ Market welcomes glass, egg cartons for recycling
Visitors to the Hitching Lot Farmers’ Market on Saturdays this summer may have noticed a new feature near the welcome table.
Recycling options abundant in Golden Triangle
While the specifics vary throughout the Golden Triangle, each of the region’s three primary cities offer at least one way to recycle paper, plastic and metal products.
Recycling gets trashy
Not long ago, Columbus resident Ruth Berry took to Facebook to draw attention to the sorry state of the recycle bin by Joe Cook Elementary.
Mississippi State lauded for recycling program
Officials from the Mississippi Recycling Coalition were at Mississippi State Tuesday to present the university with the “Educational Institution Recycler of the Year” award.
Recycling doesn’t need to be difficult, expensive
Some cities say recycling is just too expensive and difficult, particularly to get a large enough percentage of households to participate to make the program cost effective.
More fracking operations turn to waste water recycling
MIDLAND, Texas — When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis.
China says ‘no’ to West’s garbage
BEIJING — China for years has welcomed the world’s trash, creating a roaring business in recycling and livelihoods for tens of thousands. Now authorities are
Waste company to cut recycling program
Mississippi Industrial Waste, a commercial solid waste company in Columbus, will stop its curbside recycling program at the end of this month.
The company sent notice letters to local customers this week.
Bottle fraud in Mich. may face harsher penalties
Attention smugglers of empty soda cans: Stay out of Michigan, or you could face jail time.
MSU, Starkville see growth in recycling programs
Spoiler alert: This newspaper will probably be thrown away.
According to a report from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, about 10 million tons of newsprint is thrown away each year in the United States.
There is no way to be sure exactly how many of those tons come from this state, but without question it’s more than a few.
CMSD launches city-wide electronics recycling
The Columbus Municipal School District is thinking green these days, launching a new recycling initiative it hopes will bring in a little extra cash while helping the environment.
Council considers recycling contract
The Columbus City Council will begin looking at its contract with Mississippi Industrial Waste Disposal Tuesday night. The contract expires in November. The waste company is a subsidiary of Waste Pro.