LAYTON — A half-ton of unused over-the-counter and prescription medicines are expected to be collected Saturday in Davis County through the biannual “clean out your medicine cabinet” campaign. A similar effort that day will take place in Weber County. Last year’s effort there resulted in 475

While Roanoke County, Salem and Vinton residents may not spot the prize patrol in their neighborhoods, a recycling lottery will reach them too. If the residents take their used bottles, cans, paper and plastic to recycling drop sites on eight dates, they may enter a Coca-Cola Bottling Co

Imagine that everything you receive for Christmas fits in one shoebox. That’s what the 28 members of The Ellison School’s Interact Club were asked as they set to work in teams to build 28 “Boxes of Love,” shoe-box-sized plastic bins filled to the brim with items requested

THE first Township Forum meeting at the Elms Community Centre was addressed by Neil Long, assistant director of Bury waste, on recycling. He explained that the £25 charge for replacement plastic bins applied to all bins

Memphis, Tenn.-based International Paper (IP) and Austin, Texas-based Temple-Inland Inc. (TIN) have entered into a definitive merger agreement through which IP will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Temple-Inland for $32 per share in cash, plus the assumption of $600 million in TIN’s year-end debt

New blue recycling bins have been added to the 1st St. Plaza on the corner of 1st and Main streets, and to the Municipal Plaza along the river. Everyone is encouraged to use the bins to recycle plastic bins, aluminum cans and paper. Please use these blue bins for the recyclable materials

If Ashburton adopts wheelie plastic bins for its kerbside rubbish collection, it will set recycling in the district back years, says waste expert Sheryl Stevens. Included in the Ashburton District Council’s draft waste management and minimization plan, is a proposal to can the black plastic bags and open green crates currently in use