The Arcata Resource Recovery Center — better known as the spot on 10th Street where you can drop off your recyclables and get your deposit back on glass bottles and cans — is closing. As the Mad River Union first reported, Rick Powell, the general manager of Eel River Resource Recovery — which owns and […]
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ACRC v HWMA: Settled
A four-year battle over Arcata’s recycling is over. In 2011, the Arcata Community Recycling Center, a scrappy, built-from-scratch icon of the city’s ‘70s progressivism, closed its doors, not long after building an $8 million processing plant in Samoa. ACRC, in addition to its westside Arcata community dropoff center, had processed most of the Humboldt Waste […]