SXSW Announces 2025 Film & TV Festival Award Winners

Good Boy’s Indy fetches “Howl of Fame” honors

"...queens. In a storytelling landscape where vampire tales often recycle familiar tropes, this striking film offers a fresh approach..."

March 12, 2025 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 16-22

"...I produce and increase the amount of dross I recycle. I encourage you, my fellow Cancerians, to make a..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

The 5 Iconic Austin Beers You Cannot Miss at SXSW

You’re here; you might as well drink like a local

"...Austin. Now get outta here, and don’t forget to recycle, you vapelords...."

March 8, 2024 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Pass Policies on Plastic

"...plastic pollution. We often hear the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle,” but there is more focus on recycling than reduction...."

Sept. 26, 2023 Postmarks

Opinion: The Case Against Disposable Food Ware

Austinites should be a part of the solution and eliminate plastic, single-use items from the waste stream

"...but the reality is, we simply aren't going to recycle and compost our way out of this. With Austin's..."

June 30, 2023 Column by Jessica Fleming

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...that about 5% of plastic in America is actually recycled. Despite this, Austin city officials and the facilities that..."

April 21, 2023 News Feature

Hot Topic

"...be the push someone needs to drive less or recycle more. And in Texas, that push might be peppers...."

March 30, 2023 Postmarks

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Trees Die Hard: Post-Christmas, don't recycle your tree. Just cut it in half if it's..."

Dec. 23, 2022 News Feature

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

Taking the heat off local garbage collection trucks

"...Recycle. Cardboard, plain wrapping paper, and the tape left on..."

Dec. 9, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Luv Doc: The Sex Was Really Good

What good would the Luv Doc be doing if he danced around the hard topics with feeble euphemisms just to placate some nebulous, antiquated, Victorian sensibility?

"...full plastic bag from her cat box in my recycle bin that had been sitting in her car trunk..."

April 16, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

Austin Mushrooms With a View to the Future

Smallhold brings the fruits of fancy fungus to Austin

"...And what Smallhold does, besides grow and sell and recycle, is fulfill their business commitments. "We're getting our retail..."

March 26, 2021 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Public Notice: Doing In Deed Restrictions?

Plus: More Hancock! And fewer teachers?

"...The city's Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center has reopened, starting this week,..."

March 12, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Low-Waste Cooking Is Possible With a Few Small Daily Changes

Waste less, save more

"...goes through your house or figure out where to recycle the weirdest thing that comes through. Just pick one..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...office closures for city facilities and public services. The Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center is now closed until further..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Feature

#notallstraws

Pasta Life brings a single-use straw that our planet will love

"...their own problems, but a friendly straw that will recycle itself on the spot, pretty much, after you’re done..."

Sept. 14, 2020 Food Post by W. A. Brenner

Requiem for Bulk Trash Day

Get used to the pile in your garage – Austin Resource Recovery isn't rescheduling spring bulk collection pickups

"...and bulk routes to concentrate resources to collect trash, recycle, and compost," she wrote in an email...."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: Tia Carrera Catches Some Vibes

Late-night stoner jams still see the light of day

"...for a solid 6-7 weeks barring trips to the recycle bins and trash, and little masked-up trips to our..."

June 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Vinyl Saved My Life Tonight: Record Stores Deliver in a Crisis

Local media emporiums maintain online shipping during C-19 lockdown

"...the nation. It’s a local company, family owned, they recycle, donate to schools, promote literacy, and give employees good..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

A Banana Peel, a Diaper, and a Plastic Bag Walk Into Austin's Composting Program

How can a whole city compost, is it working, and can we reach zero waste by 2040?

"...it. Compost is the most expensive waste stream to recycle because it has such a low value. Anybody that..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

Public Notice: ___ Commission Wraps Up

PC confirms its new, "no planning" job description

"...America Recycles Day is this Fri., Nov. 15, and Austin Resource..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Winter Is Coming! Embrace the Cold as Night King Greg Abbott.

The Texas governor (dis)graces the Chronicle’s annual Halloween mask cover

"...and filth you will surely find there. (Do not recycle! You will need to do something with the trees..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Features Feature

The Luv Doc: Buried Alive

Making metaphorical mountains out of metaphorical molehills

"...mainly that he had either found a way to recycle a shattered mirror or that he had shattered a..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Public Notice: Total Garbage

Good news and bad news about your waste stream

"...in Sierra Magazine's cover story this month, "You Can't Recycle Garbage," by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Humes. "By 2016,"..."

July 12, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

10 Must-Visit Independent Austin Bookstores

For those still enamored by the written word

"...you are a mint-condition novel by a well-known author. Recycled Reads..."

June 29, 2019 Arts Post by Sam Russek

Glass Half Full Theatre's Once There Were Six Seasons

Using innovative puppetry, Glass Half Full Theatre dukes it out with climate change in an invigorating way

"...out. Alternative Ener­gy (think: solar, wind) and The Resourcerer (Recycle Man) tag team against Mad Cow (aka the Vegan..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

"Rebris" at Northern-Southern

Reduce, reuse, recycle is seldom so remarkable as in these works by Virginia Fleck and Ted Carey

April 26, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Q Toys Suspends Toy Recycling Program, Seeks Community Feedback

Ask not what a Fleshjack can do for you, ask what you can do for a Fleshjack

"...years ago for customers and noncustomers alike, the program recycled any plastic or rubber toys – playthings of the..."

March 7, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Staging Mr. Burns, a post-electric play With Zero Waste

A UT student production of Anne Washburn’s play shows how to make theatre the sustainable way

"...the design aspect. There are the three Rs: reuse, recycle, and reduce. So when I was designing, with every..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings

Mixing Up Your Environmentalism

Plateaued on your earth-friendly efforts? Here are a few ideas to help.

"...It’s the same idea as “reduce, reuse and recycle.” First, reduce consumerism. Then, reuse and repurpose any materials,..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Events Post by Bonny Chu

Uncle Drew

Kyrie Irving's soda campaign gets a movie spin-off

"...commercial, but that it’s taken someone this long to recycle that idea. Believe it or not, it still kinda..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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