Has Austin Resource Recovery Found a Solution to Its Chronic A/C Problem?

Taking the heat off local garbage collection trucks

"...collection trucks, like the ones operated by Austin Resource Recovery crews, it's a different story. Operators constantly stop and..."

Dec. 9, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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

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

Getting to Zero

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

"...recycled, or composted instead of landfilled. The Austin Resource Recovery Mas­ter Plan, adopted in December 2011, established the goal..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Landfill Will Top Mount Bonnell in Height

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

"...long-awaited report from consultants R.W. Beck on the proposed materials recovery facility. Ultimately, the report raised more questions than..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

Solid Waste Services

Toward a greener future

"...with Greenstar North America, and building the city's own materials recovery facility, or MRF...."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Adds Costs and CO2 to Recycling Program

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

"...component. The city was supposed to have its own materials-recovery facility, or MRF (pronounced "murf"), to take that trash..."

Oct. 24, 2008 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

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

City Hall Hustle: Top 10 City Council Stories

From the dais to the streets

"...LET'S GO MRFING! The city's quest for its own materials recovery facility was this year's council farce, with Texas..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: In the Shadow of Sanders ...

Council facing less dramatic agenda this week

"...Systems for short-term recycling services (read: before a local materials recovery facility is built), with two optional six-month extensions..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

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

City Hall Hustle: The Hangover

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

"...stream since 2008. But as the city lacks a materials recovery facility (a center for sorting and expediting recyclables),..."

March 26, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

A Plan to Plan for a Zero-Waste City

Leadership will determine the success of long-range strategy

"...department director, and the city considering building its own materials recovery facility, this is the perfect time for setting..."

July 31, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Muffing the MRF

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

"...to the city's request for proposal for the long-awaited materials recovery facility, or MRF. That's a major reversal: Not..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

Cool City: The Leffingwell Lens

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

"...and has since seen a 40% increase in recycled materials, Leffingwell said (see www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/recyclingpilot.htm). The council has approved $3.5..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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

Attempting to Comply

With a new name and a new boss, Code Compliance tries to become more 'people-friendly'

"...name, along with its avowed purpose, to "Austin Resource Recovery") handle all weeds, junk, and litter dumping complaints. In..."

Sept. 30, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: It Ain't Xmas Yet

Council closing in on a raft of unfinished business

"...Austin most recently as head of the California Resource Recovery Association, a nonprofit devoted to recycling and reuse. He'll..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Controversy over new South by Southwest dome in Bastrop

"...Department. The plan is to re-engineer Austin's long-awaited planned materials recovery facility to also accommodate a recycled construction materials..."

April 1, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Engineering Extinction Event

Why Texas needs more walking dinosaurs

"...has issued another request for proposal for its long-delayed materials recovery facility, and is still debating whether to have..."

Nov. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Municipal Death Match!

With five council seats open, mayor and Place 1 look like the headliners

"...aid both; he favors the city building its own materials-recovery facility to recycle locally, instead of out of town,..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

City Hall Hustle: Recycling Recycled ... Again

Contentious negotiations confirm one thing: Trash is golden

"...voted on a contract to design and permit a materials recovery facility – a way station for sorting and..."

April 15, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

TDS, Balcones to Split City Recycling Work

Split vote over decision to abandon bid process

"...July, with a long-term contract, including creation of a materials recovery facility, in September...."

July 2, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Gets Trashed

MRF talk and more budget matters

"...Totescast is recycling tropes, as we return to the Materials Recovery Facility controversy over which contractor gets to sort..."

June 24, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

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

The Daily Hustle: 5/17/10

MRFs, oh my!

"...but haven’t touched on the finalists to build a materials recovery facility, or MRF, to sort the city’s recyclables...."

May 17, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...a briefing on the short-listed proposals for an Austin-based materials recovery facility, the sorting center required for the city..."

May 14, 2010 News Feature

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