When the time comes, Humboldt County residents have a number of options for recycling their Christmas tree, which will find a new life as mulch or compost. But remember to remove all those ornaments, tinsel and other adornments before sending that sampling on its merry way. And, as always, flocked trees are not eligible. To […]
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Crowds Shutdown CRV Buybacks
The Humboldt Waste Management Authority is closing down CRV buyback services at its Eureka Recycling Center, which just began Tuesday, until further notice due to an overwhelming demand. Within a day of reopening, traffic began backing up on Broadway Street, prompting the city to set up temporary detours and wait times were one to two […]
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HWMA Eureka Recycling Center Reopens with Limited Hours; CRV Still Closed
Humboldt Waste Management Authority’s Eureka Recycling Center will reopen with limited public services on Tuesday, Aug. 11. “We are pleased to announce the reopening of the Eureka Recycling Center to resume acceptance of recyclable materials and items,” stated Executive Director Jill Duffy. “HWMA has undertaken necessary site improvements to assist in traffic control and customer […]
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Recycling’s New Reality
You’ve gone to the grocery store, bought everything you needed for dinner — chicken and potato salad — and you’re ready to cook. You peel the potatoes, chop carrots and celery, and set the scraps in the compost. You throw away the plastic mesh the potatoes came in because it’s not recyclable. The mayonnaise is […]
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Fire & Light is Closing Its Doors, Searching for a New Owner
Fire & Light, an iconic Humboldt County business story that mixed creativity with sustainability, is closing unless a buyer can be found. According to a Facebook page post today, the Arcata-based company known for its colorful glassware “is no longer financially feasible for the company to continue to operate without another significant investment of cash” […]
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Dirty, Trashy Arcata
This past week saw two major milestones for Arcata consumers. First, as of midnight on Friday, the independent Arcata Garbage Company officially passed into the hands of Recology Humboldt, which provides trash services for several other Humboldt cities. The parent company, Recology, has become a West Coast behemoth, with resource recovery companies in California, Oregon […]
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TL;DR: Five Themes to Up-cycle from the Green Issue
Did you throw away too much time this week? No worries, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a recycled version of this week’s Green Issue, and five reasons why Humboldt County is a great place to go Zero Waste. Reason #1: We’re Welcoming Zero Waste, one of the more recent philosophies to come out of the […]
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Arcata Recycling Center to Close
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 […]
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Ho Ho Heave Ho
Your dear old Christmas tree wants to go back to the good green earth it came from. Come, compost! Come, energy! So get on it, before Valentine’s Day smooches in to mock you and your tree. You can drop your tree off for recycling at one of the places listed below, or call for curbside pickup. […]
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How Green is Humboldt?
As the world readies to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, it seems a fitting time to take a good, hard look in the mirror. Yes, Humboldt County, home to towering redwood trees, flowing rivers and a magnificent coastline, was green before it was cool. It’s a place where folks outfitted their homes with solar […]
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RIP: The Hardest Working Man in Humboldt County
Hard-toiling exercise fanatic, exuder of tact and charm and recognizable recycler Ken Kyle has died. If you’ve been in Humboldt long, you probably saw him working. His familiar pickup trucks sported an assortment of barrels, bags and boxes always filled — or about to be filled — with recycling; 10,000 pounds of glass a week during […]