Worms vs. Warming: Why We Need to Compost
Want to Compost? Just Move a Mountain! Something I’ve discovered in my brief but deep dive into making humus—a technical term for what comes out...
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Are Pizza Boxes Recyclable in Gwinnett?
If you’ve ever gotten into a debate with someone about whether or not pizza boxes are recyclable in Gwinnett, chances are good that...
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TerraCycle Now Accepts Razors!
Have you heard of TerraCycle, the company that makes it easy to recycle hard-to-recycle items for free AND for a great cause? With the financial...
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A Tour of a Glass Recycling Plant
If you ask us, there’s nothing much more fun than a tour of a recycling facility. Our team’s interest in tours was sparked two years...
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Request a Free Recycling Cart!
Want to upgrade your plain ‘ol recycling bin to a 65-gallon recycling cart on wheels — for free? Of course you do! If you live in...
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Gwinnett to Host First Hazardous Waste Event
Good news! Gwinnett County’s Fiscal and Solid Waste Management Division, Department of Water Resources, and Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful...
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What’s Going On With Glass Recycling?
After several years of uncertainty around glass recycling in our community, the announcement finally came from Gwinnett County Government on June...
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A Tour of the Snellville Recycling Center
Gwinnett Recycles citizen volunteers recently took a guided tour of Gwinnett’s best kept recycling secret: The Snellville Recycling Center...
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Changes Coming to Gwinnett Solid Waste
The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners gave citizens an early Christmas gift this week by authorizing the execution of new eight-year hauler...
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Easy Composting for the Apartment Dweller
Composting, in which organic material is enabled to decompose into nutrient-rich soil mix, is growing in popularity as more people are becoming...
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Making the Holidays Less Wasteful (& More Fun)
‘Tis the season for family, fun, celebration, and…a LOT of waste. According to the EPA, the volume of household waste in the United...
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Why Millennials Should Care About Recycling
If you’re a fellow millennial, meaning born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, and you don’t recycle, we need to talk. Like right now...
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