Please do not put shredded paper in your curbside bin! Tax season is here, which may mean that you're digging through papers you've accumulated and finding a lot that you're ready to toss. When disposing of papers containing sensitive and personally identifying information, many people think they're doing the "right thing" by shredding their docume...
Green Blog
News about our community as it relates to the environment
Mar
27
Feb
25
There's an easy way to find out if an item can be recycled in your curbside cart: go to the Recycling A-Z Directory or download the RecycleRight app (on the Apple App Store and Google Play store), where you can search for hundreds of products and how to properly dispose of them. Know before you throw! Putting items in your bin that are not acc...
Feb
19
Did your garbage, recycling, or yard debris service get cancelled during the recent winter weather? Here's how to be in the know and prepared for when weather delays or cancels your service! While Clark County may not have received as much snow as expected over the last couple of weeks, it was just enough to cause cancellations and delays in garbag...
Feb
15
Paint. It seems like you either have too much, or not enough. If you have left over paint in cans that are taking up space and collecting dust, we have good news for you. The number of locations in Clark County that are accepting paint for takeback has just increased! Paint is a household hazardous waste (HHW) which means it requires extra care whe...
Feb
07
The amount of waste we create is increasing all of the time, while simultaneously space for waste is inevitably decreasing, as landfills are reaching capacity and quickly becoming obsolete. In an effort to mitigate this problem, recycling systems have been erected around the world, creating global markets and diverging specific materials from inund...
