Pawtucket’s entry into trash collection consortium likely lessens East Providence’s cost
EAST PROVIDENCE — The cost of ridding the city of its rubbish likely just got a little less expensive for East Providence as neighboring Pawtucket completed its privatization plans and will join a local consortium formed to reduce expenses related to garbage collection. The Pawtucket Times reported last week that city had signed a five-year [...]
Read More →Resource Recovery urges residents to recycle Thanksgiving cooking oil
JOHNSTON — For Rhode Island residents deep frying their turkeys this Thanksgiving, the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (RIRRC) provides the perfect recycling service for that leftover waste – a cooking oil collection that recycles and converts the waste into alternative, sustainable fuel. RIRRC provides this cooking oil collection service year-round, but many residents find [...]
Read More →Thanks for letting us complain about Site Ready plans for Eagleville Road
To the editor: I want to thank councilors David Nelson and Rob Coulter for being instrumental in allowing our neighborhood and other town residents to voice their concerns and read our formal complaint at the Town Council meeting Tuesday evening regarding the expansion of Site Ready on Eagleville Road. If it were up to council [...]
Read More →Barrington rewarded for residents’ recycling
It pays to recycle. Just ask Alan Corvi. The director of the Barrington Department of Public Works learned this week that the town’s recycling efforts would be rewarded with a check for nearly $50,000. The money is part of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation’s recycling profits program, which shares the funds earned through [...]
Read More →Warren recycled 1,250 tons last year
Every man, woman and child in Warren turned in 236 pounds of recyclables this past year, according to state recycling records and a comparison of state census figures. Overall, Warren’s 10,611 residents recycled 1,250 tons of plastic, paper, metal and other recyclables during the fiscal year that ran from July 2011 through June 2012. Where [...]
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