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Glass, new types of plastic may soon be recyclable in Little Rock

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.
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Arkansas’s new tire recycling program has a problem. There’s not enough money.

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.
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Recycling ‘Green Station’ opens at new location in Little Rock

Getcha recycling on! The Green Station accepts glass, plastic bags, electronics and hazardous substances from pesticides to gasoline.

An extra recycling pickup scheduled this coming week in Little Rock

Waste Management has scheduled an extra recycling pickup day Monday in Little Rock on account of weather disruptions.
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UPDATE: Little Rock City Board has deal in works on recycling

A recycling compromise and a dark outlook for a resolution encouraging an eviction moratorium are on the Little Rock Board agenda tonight.

Bottle deposit bill introduced

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.
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The digital junkyard: 'Urban mining'

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 proposes to expand recycling to larger apartment projects

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.
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Little Rock recycling catchup

The city of Little Rock says Waste Management is still working to catch up on recycling pickups disrupted by the winter storm and holiday schedules.

Plastic recycler to employ 350 in Rogers

Roby Brock's Talk Business reports on the announcement of a $10 million plastics recycling facility in Rogers that will employ 350.
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Getting in sync with recycling

Help needed. I can't remember which week is on and which week is off for the city's new single-stream recycling service.

News updates: The felon candidate and new dumpsters

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.
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