The week in local news
Tag: Recycling
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New hard-to-recycle facility coming to Decatur early 2023
Live Thrive broke ground on its second facility this week.
Posted inHannah Jones
Center for Hard to Recycle Materials, a zero-waste drop-off facility, comes to Decatur next year
In November, Live Thrive will break ground on its new zero-waste facility at 1225 Columbia Dr.
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CHaRM by Live Thrive: Atlanta’s recycling facility that accepts nearly everything
It’s pretty typical these days to toss your plastic container or glass bottle in the recycling bin, but other items likely don’t get the same treatment. Before you throw your styrofoam cooler or bin of dead batteries into the trash, though, consider giving those hard-to-recycle items a new life through a local Atlanta facility. The […]
Posted inMaggie Lee
Atlanta communities facing higher landfill prices for what they flush
It’s getting more expensive to bury what metro Atlanta flushes down the toilet.
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Getting to Zero Waste
By Pamela Henman Increasingly, consumers, corporations, and cities are waking the sleeping giant that is plastic pollution, as a recent spate of corporate and municipal bans on single use plastic items like plastic straws and bags make global headlines. According to the United Nations Environment, about 60 percent of the more than 8.3 billion tons […]
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Atlanta’s proposed rate hike for solid waste, recycling rejected by council committee
Atlanta residents won’t see a hike in their solid waste bills for the billing cycle that starts Jan. 1, 2018, following a vote Tuesday by committee of the Atlanta City Council. But a rate hike seems inevitable given the dire financial situation of the city’s trash collection and recycling programs.
