September 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Virtual Meeting Only:...
top of page
Ozarks Headwaters Recycling and Materials Management District
Search
- Aug 15
August 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
- Aug 8
Recycling and Water Quality: What's the Connection?
Can recycling really help to reduce negative human impacts on water quality? By: Tracey Coronado 08 August 2023 Of all the things the...
- Jul 18
July 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
- Apr 28
The Reuse Project Underway in Local Universities
The Reuse Project is a collaborative effort by students at Drury University and Missouri State University to encourage reuse of...
- Apr 18
April 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
- Mar 31
The Importance of Recycling Batteries (and how to do it in Springfield, MO)
What do pacemakers, cars, cell phones, and remote controls have in common? If you guessed that they all run on batteries, you are...
- Mar 28
Drug Take Back Events
Don't miss the Spring DEA Drug Take Back Event! Saturday, April 22, 2023, 10am to 2pm Locations in Greene and Christian Counties Bring...
- Feb 22
February 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
- Jan 26
Study up on all things green with OHRD's sustainability vocab list
Photo by Daniel Funes on Unsplash Sustainability is a subject loaded with complicated terminology and buzzwords. If water-cooler...
- Jan 16
January 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
- Jan 10
'Painting the big picture' of paint recycling legislation in Missouri
Photo by Alena Koval on Pexels If you have at least one partially filled paint can left over from a recent home-improvement project,...
- Dec 29, 2022
This New Year's, resolve to waste less and recycle more
Photos via Unsplash and Pexels As 2022 wraps up and as you look into the next year, we hope you are motivated to identify and implement...
- Dec 29, 2022
Your recycling doesn't end up in the landfill, despite what you may have heard
Photo by Diana Dudenhoeffer Perhaps a friend or neighbor told you that recycling doesn’t matter. They might have said the whole exercise...
- Dec 15, 2022
Hey, Ozarks: It's time to take a good, hard look at our food waste
Photo by Nancy Hughes on Unsplash Americans waste more than 130 billion pounds of food each year. Counting for every step of the...
- Dec 1, 2022
No, your banana peel won't turn into soil in the trashcan
Photo by Aleksandar Pasaric on Pexels Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought something like this: It’s fine to toss this banana peel in...
- Nov 17, 2022
Ten easy ways to make your holiday celebrations more sustainable
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash With the holiday season around the corner, living sustainably might be the last thing on your mind....
- Nov 11, 2022
Photo Gallery: Tour the City of Springfield Noble Hill Landfill with Environmental Services
Springfield's Noble Hill Sanitary Landfill is a 1,200 acre space northwest of town, but only about 200 acres of it is used as waste...
- Nov 8, 2022
We can't wish-cycle our way to sustainability
Photo by Ron Lach on Unsplash I want to start this article with a story about my old roommate. The first few weeks of living on campus my...
- Oct 25, 2022
Plastics 1-7: What you need to know about the world’s most confusing recyclable
Photo by Zuzanna Szczepanska on Unsplash Grab any plastic container and it’s likely you’ll find a symbol stamped in the bottom with three...
Welcome to the RECYCLE 417 blog!
You’ve got recycling questions? We’ve got recycling answers!
We’ll do our best to post current, useful information on a variety of recycling and waste reduction topics. We want you to be in the know! Please check in once in a while to see what we have to share. And if you don’t see what you’re looking for, contact us with suggestions.
bottom of page