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Post-holiday recycling
Get a nifty gadget under your Christmas tree? It’s a good idea to recycle the old version. Recycling Jackson will be open on Saturday, Jan. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We’ll be taking the usual recyclable materials, as well as e-waste – which means you can recycle that old not-so-flatscreen TV. And now…
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Ecology Center: “Close the incinerator”
Recycling Jackson has a copy of the Ecology Center’s “Financial Projections for Closure of the Jackson County Resource Recovery Facility” memo (download the pdf). It’s conclusion? The closing of the JCRRF presents significant opportunities for improved services and job creation in Jackson County. This major transition should not simply be left to convert from incineration…
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President’s Column: Hope Still Abounds
For those of us that are avid recyclers there was a glimmer of hope this fall that we will have the opportunity to bring others into the recycling fold. If you happened to miss the headlines a couple weeks ago, the Department of Correction put Jackson County on notice that they were going to no…
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Summer e-waste drive totals
We had a great turnout for our summer e-waste drive as a part of the Jackson Community Recycling Day. All-told, we collected 18,595 lbs. of electronics, including 11,800 lbs. of TVs; 2,500 lbs. of PC monitors; 2,500 lbs. of PCs; 1,700 lbs. of miscellaneous materials. That’s more than nine tons of e-waste that won’t go…