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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.
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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…
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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…
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Regular visitors to Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market may notice something missing this summer: market organizers are banning plastic bags.Market…
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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…
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Curbside glass recycling is about to expand to more neighborhoods in Salt Lake County.Last year, Wasatch Front Waste & Recycling District partnered with…
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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 –…
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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…
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Salt Lake City has offered curbside glass recycling for almost three years. Now the service is debuting in a few county neighborhoods, where recycling…
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Christmas trees have brightened the holidays throughout the Salt Lake Valley for weeks. Soon they can repurposed by being recycled.The Christmas trees…
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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…
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More Salt Lake City residents are recycling glass since curbside pickup started last fall. Today city officials celebrated the grand opening of a new…