All the cool kids recycle. If Little Rock directors approve a contract extension that includes new services through Waste Management next week, glass recycling would be back.
Despite the $8 million-a-year program’s crash in 2022, the governor and General Assembly have been unwilling to raise the state-mandated tire fees that fund it.
Rep. Vivian Flowers (D-Pine Bluff) today introduced HB 1771 to require a five-cent deposit on beverage bottles, refundable when the bottles are returned for recycling.
We'd mentioned earlier that the state would participate (including $14 million in teacher retirement venture capital) in the announcement today of a new venture in Osceola, BlueOak Resources, that will recycle materials from junked electronics such as computers. Did you know this process was known as "urban mining"?
Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola announced today a proposed ordinance, supported by the real estate lobby, to require multi-family projects to provide for recycling beginning July 1.
Updates on two items I mentioned earlier:
* FELON CANDIDATE: I mentioned earlier that the Democratic Party had rejected the filing of Fred Smith, a convicted felon, to run for state representative.