Recycling

So-called Repair Cafés have a simple goal: pairing people and their broken household belongings with tinkerers and tools to fix them, thus shrinking the flow of waste to landfills.

Utah has a recycling problem: we're not very good at it.That was easy to see while walking among the crowded conveyor belts and mountains of trash on a…

Beginning this month Salt Lake City will stop accepting plastic bags for recycling. There are several reasons for the city’s “Bag-the-bag” campaign.The…

Regular visitors to Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market may notice something missing this summer: market organizers are banning plastic bags.Market…

Christmas is over, and now Utahns are starting to think about taking down their trees. Many communities have tree pickup programs that give the trees new…

Curbside glass recycling is about to expand to more neighborhoods in Salt Lake County.Last year, Wasatch Front Waste & Recycling District partnered with…

They’ve filled the room with evergreen scent. They’ve filled families with Christmas cheer. Now those live Christmas trees can serve yet another purpose –…

Local businesses and apartment complexes in Salt Lake City may soon be required to recycle. The city council is taking a look at the issue next week.The…

Salt Lake City has offered curbside glass recycling for almost three years. Now the service is debuting in a few county neighborhoods, where recycling…

Christmas trees have brightened the holidays throughout the Salt Lake Valley for weeks. Soon they can repurposed by being recycled.The Christmas trees…

More Christmas gifts and parties mean more waste. And the Salt Lake Valley Waste and Recycling District says customers can cut that waste by recycling…

More Salt Lake City residents are recycling glass since curbside pickup started last fall. Today city officials celebrated the grand opening of a new…