City of Tacoma Solid Waste

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.

Is additive manufacturing the key to achieving zero landfill waste?

With Eaton’s growing involvement in additive manufacturing for the aerospace sector, its waste reduction capabilities are also being considered.

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

15 Easy Ways To Reduce Landfill Waste

There are lot of items that we use everyday and then get rid of them by throwing them in the

Hazardous Waste Treatment: Onsite, Transfer Station or Landfill?

Hazardous waste has properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment because it is generated

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,

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.

How Textile Recycling Can Help Slash Emissions, Pollution and Landfill

Textiles account for 10 percent of global carbon emissions. The industry is the world’s second-biggest industrial polluter, behind oil. In Australia, an

Five Steps to Creating a Scalable Medical Device Manufacturing Transfer Process

Optimizing an integrated design team for contract manufacturing partnerships.

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)

Can Design Help Prevent Electronic Waste From Ending Up in a Landfill?

The research-driven approach of design duo Studio Formafantasma might typically result in beautiful, poetic objects ranging from lighting and vessels to

Solid Waste Ratemaking: The Whys and How

Cost of service studies are an essential tool in managing a solid waste agency in these uncertain times. They provide opportunities for introduction of

What Is a Dog Sanitary Trim?

A dog sanitary trim cuts down the hair around your dog’s privates, so that urine and feces do not get stuck on the dog. This keeps your dog — and your house — cleaner.