City Adds Costs and CO2 to Recycling Program

Our milk jugs, newspapers, and cereal boxes are shipped to Dallas for sorting and selling

"...Everyone agrees: Single-stream recycling is the biggest and best change to Austin's trash..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Recycling Recycled ... Again

Contentious negotiations confirm one thing: Trash is golden

"...Austin's efforts in the recycling department go back further still. Council got serious about..."

April 15, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

TDS, Balcones to Split City Recycling Work

Split vote over decision to abandon bid process

"...The latest chapter of Austin's recycling saga comes to a close with a less-than-unanimous vote..."

July 2, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Sunday Survey, 6/13/10

Democracy and decisions delayed

"...panic, both Water Treatment Plant 4 and the city's materials recovery facility remain in their respective limbos. Time for..."

June 13, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Waste Wars

City Tries to Seal Best Deal for Trash and Recycling

"...Solid Waste Services Department are negotiating 30-year-long contracts for recycling and waste disposal that could eventually cost twice as..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Recycled Dreams: Three MRFs and a Phantom in the Wings

The council considers recycling proposals, with one offer off the table

"...from three finalists proposing to build Austin its own materials recovery facility, a center for sorting and expediting recyclables...."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Muffing the MRF

Who's left to bid on running the city's recycling facility?

"...argument over how the city of Austin handles its recycling may now become a testing ground for its lobbying..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Then There's This: Two Developments at Crossroads

A proposed recycling plant collides with a planned residential project

"...The two divergent paths could either lead to a recycling facility, fleet site, and transfer station for waste collection..."

March 22, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

City Hall Hustle: Taking Out the Trash

Delayed 'Master Plan' for Solid Waste Department is tip of the landfill

"...Services' latest original sin: lack of progress on a materials recycling facility. MRFs ("murfs" in wonkspeak) serve as way..."

May 29, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: The Hangover

Recycling, homeless housing, and spandex – cure for a migraine?

"...with Greenstar North Amer­ica, which has handled the city's recycling stream since 2008. But as the city lacks a..."

March 26, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: Summer Not-so-Blockbusters

During Council hiatus, the work goes on

"...Recycling, actually. The Solid Waste Advisory Commission has been a..."

July 17, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point: Solid Waste: Willie Rhodes Slides Sideways

City announces SWS 'reorganization' – Rhodes to head 'Code Compliance'

"...Ott put on hold plans to build a new materials recycling facility (aka MRF, or "murf" in wonk-speak) when..."

June 5, 2009 News Column by Michael King

City Hall Hustle: It All Costs Real Money

Historic zoning, affordable housing, recycling, firefighting ... and laundry

"...item involved a choice among a bevy of proposed recycling contract extensions. Ultimately, council renewed in full the city..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Daily Hustle: 6/10/10 (Updated x 2)

Water Treatment Plant No. 4 dominates low impact agenda

"...executive session, with discussion of hot topics like the Materials Recovery Facility and historic landmark zoning still in wait...."

June 10, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Daily Hustle: 6/18/10

More MRF madness next meeting

"...The Materials Recycling Facility saga has been a strange one, with..."

June 18, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Daily Hustle: 6/11/10

I don't need no cure … sweet Council hangover

"...of errors that has been the search for a Materials Recovery Facility gained another chapter yesterday, as City Council..."

June 11, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Getting to Zero

Will Austin's green seif-image be realized with its "zero waste" goals?

"...waste" by 2040, meaning the city will divert the materials that would have gone to the landfill to other,..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Making Reuse Mainstream

Austin needs a combo of government leadership, corporate responsibility, and individual commitment to meet reuse benchmarks

"...markets, resale shops, online auctions, and domestic and overseas recycling operations. The stuffed animals are both the evidence of..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Landfill Will Top Mount Bonnell in Height

TCEQ OKs landfill's march toward Austin's highest point

"...and the city still stuck in preplanning on a recycling facility, environmentalists worry those laurels are turning into compost...."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

What Goes Where?

Recycling do's and don'ts

"...Residential Single-Stream Recycling..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature

Solid Waste Services

Toward a greener future

"...a city that regards itself as environmentally conscious, Austin's recycling policies often lack coherence. Now the City Council is..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Solid Waste: Who's Driving the Train?

City staff's landfill-expansion decision has violated – at least in the spirit – a resolution passed by council. Now everybody wants to know why.

"...First was the quiet mothballing of plans for a materials-recovery facility (see "City Adds Costs and CO2 to Recycling..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Play It Again, MRF

There's many a slip between the dais and the big blue bin

"...By now, the materials recovery facility debate is itself more recycled than a..."

June 25, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...of errors that has been the search for a materials recovery facility – a sorting center for the city's recycling..."

June 18, 2010 News Feature

Recycled Arguments

"...the North Austin Civic Association to discuss BFI's new recycling facility on Metric Boulevard, which opened in April. Simply..."

June 21, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Cast Away

Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood

"...many people would expect from a "foundry." The 35,000-square-foot facility fills about half a block on East Fourth with..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Owners maintain operation is environmentally friendly

"...begin processing waste at their exhausted sand and gravel facility close to the intersection of FM 969 and FM..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Cool City: The Leffingwell Lens

One council member's view of the Austin Climate Protection Plan

"...water to far-flung new Hill Country subdivisions? Stay tuned.) Recycling, Landfills, Plastic Bags..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

A Place to Gather Again

The Long Center recycles not only Palmer Auditorium's materials but also its civic purpose

"...inside and explored every nook and cranny of the facility, from the glassed-in Kodosky Donor Lounge with its expansive..."

March 21, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a controversial holding facility for noncriminal immigrants that has come under international fire..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature

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