Nashville has significantly reduced the amount of contamination in its recycling bins, but the city is still having to throw out about 28% of the volume of items that are set aside for recycling.
Storm Stretched Metro, But Nashville Should Be Mostly Back To Normal Monday
The latest storm update from Metro Nashville agencies shows how a week of tough winter weather pushed city workers into lengthy shifts and agencies to operate around the clock. Car crashes brought down power poles and destroyed fire hydrants, water mains broke, traffic and rail crossing signals malfunctioned and animal control officers responded 126 stray […]
Nashville To Pay More For Curbside Recycling
Nashville’s residential curbside recycling program will cost the city more money going forward. And the change is big enough that it briefly had some on the Metro Council doubting whether to continue the service at all.
Nashville Scraps More Frequent Curbside Recycling Amid Tight Budget
Another budget line is being squeezed as the city of Nashville works through a cash crunch.
Why Nashville Just Banned Plastic Takeout Containers From Curbside Recycling Bins
Nashville is tightening the rules on what can go in curbside recycling bins, including issuing a new ban on plastic takeout containers. The change, says Metro Public Works, is part of an effort to simplify the recycling process and make sure people don’t put in material that its facility can’t handle.
For The First Time, A Big Batch Of Nashville’s Leftover Election Signs Are Being Recycled
As soon as Nashville’s elections ended this month, thousands of campaign signs became just about worthless to the candidates overnight. But for the first time, a big batch of those signs will be recycled instead of taken to the dump.
Nashville Doubles Down On Curbside Recycling Program And Renegotiates Contract
Listen Metro Nashville will likely start paying more to run its recycling program. The city is in the middle of renegotiating its contract with Waste Management, the company that handles the recycling process after materials are collected. But the Public Works department says Nashville is committed to continuing its recycling program — and indeed is […]
After Years Of Hoping, Nashville Will Increase Curbside Recycling
Listen One of Nashville’s longstanding wishlist items is finally becoming a reality. Starting next year, curbside recycling will increase in frequency to every-other-week pickups.
Nashville Trashes Glass Recycling Program For Downtown Honky Tonks
An attempt to recycle more glass bottles in Nashville has failed, as Metro is discontinuing a pilot program that tried to capture glass from the downtown honky tonks.
Garbage Runneth Over In Rutherford County, Growth Will Force Landfill To Close Sooner Than Expected
Listen Despite hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of deliberations, Rutherford County has made little progress on deciding what it will do when Middle Point Landfill closes.
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