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August 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
Aug 15, 2023
Recycling and Water Quality: What's the Connection?
Can recycling really help to reduce negative human impacts on water quality? Photo courtesy of Vincenzo Di Giorgi via Unsplash By: Tracey...
Aug 8, 2023
July 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
Jul 18, 2023
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 28, 2023
April 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
Apr 18, 2023
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 31, 2023
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...
Mar 28, 2023
February 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
Feb 22, 2023
Study up on all things green with SWMDO's sustainability vocab list
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash Sustainability is a subject loaded with complicated terminology and buzzwords. If water-cooler...
Jan 26, 2023
January 2023 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Greene County Historic...
Jan 16, 2023
'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,...
Jan 10, 2023
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 29, 2022
Does throwing away food really matter? Yes, and here's why:
Photo by Nancy Hughes on Unsplash Americans waste more than 130 billion pounds of food each year. Counting for every step of the...
Dec 15, 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...
Dec 1, 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 17, 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 11, 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...
Nov 8, 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...
Oct 25, 2022
October 2022 Board Meeting
NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING Ozarks Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District Executive Board Meeting Virtual Meeting Information...
Oct 18, 2022
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