A Dover company run by an Air Force veteran and dedicated to cleaning communities has opened its first location in the state capital. Two Men and a Junk Truck opened in Dover last week, furthering its mission of junk removal. The company helps with everything from seniors looking to downsize, college students moving out, homeowners decluttering to businesses in need …
Plastic Free Delaware, a group that formed a decade ago to get rid of environmentally unfriendly single-use bags, is now tackling something that forms a quarter of municipal waste: Food scraps. It is creating its first community composting facility in Talley Day Park, behind the Brandywine Hundred Library, and prominently located right across a parking area from the playground. The …
Bureaucracy moves slowly, sometimes taking years to act. Online complaints, on the other hand, take just minutes or days to raise a ruckus. Both trends came together when Wilmington recently told the owners of about a dozen buildings that the city would no longer collect their trash or their recycling. City code, as revised in 2014, limits trash collection to …
Stay in the holiday spirit this last week of 2022 and help conserve and improve Delaware’s soil by recycling your Christmas tree. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) is asking First Staters to give their real trees to a yard waste recycling site rather than dumping them off in landfills. According to DNREC, 176,000 tons of grass, …
Newark will begin conducting “recycling audits” during regularly scheduled recycling pickups, the city announced Tuesday. In a press release, city officials said audits are necessary in order to improve the city’s compliance with Delaware Solid Waste Authority guidelines relating to recycling contamination. “Delivering clean recyclable materials to the Recycle Center allows the city to avoid costly penalties imposed by DSWA …
The Vactor 2100i recycles water while it cleans sewer lines. (New Castle County) Two new sewer cleaning trucks promise to save water, energy and time by recycling cleaning water, New Castle County says in a flyer accompanying its annual sewer bills. The new vehicles use hydraulic jets to dislodge debris, and they vacuum up debris and liquid from the …
DNREC is surveying consumers on Delaware’s ban on single-use plastic bags. (DNREC) Delaware’s ban on single-use plastic bags might become tougher, if a new bill becomes law. HB 212, introduced Thursday, goes for multiple measures: • The ban would expand to all stores as of July 1, 2022. • Reusable bags would have to be even thicker. • Reusable bags …
‘Let’s get with it and be responsible for what we can do to lessen our impact on the earth,’ one consumer wrote on DNREC’s Facebook page.
