Environmental

NCTCOG Offers Eco-Friendly New Year’s Resolutions

NCTCOG Offers Eco-Friendly New Year’s Resolutions

With the new year upon us, the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ Air North Texas division recently offered several ideas for New Year’s resolutions that involve living in a more environmentally friendly fashion.

Recycling Bag Giveaway Schedule for January

Recycling Bag Giveaway Schedule for January

Public Services staff will be out in the community each week this month on select afternoons, handing out free blue recycling bags and spreading the word about the benefits of recycling.

Youth Orchestra Members Help Clean Up Mark Twain Creek

Youth Orchestra Members Help Clean Up Mark Twain Creek

Members of the Dallas Asian American Youth Orchestra, a local organization funded in part by the Richardson Cultural Arts Commission, recently had fun together while helping beautify Richardson’s environment by collecting trash at Mark Twain Creek.

Holiday Box Recycling Fights Crime, Helps Environment

Holiday Box Recycling Fights Crime, Helps Environment

While large items such as computers and flat screen TVs are often popular holiday gifts, setting out their boxes for trash or recycling pick-up can communicate to would-be thieves about what’s inside your home.

Richardson Cooks Bring On The Grease

Richardson Cooks Bring On The Grease

Recycling in Richardson isn’t just for cans, bottles and paper. Each year following the Thanksgiving holiday, residents drop off used cooking oil at select locations as part of the City’s annual “Cease the Grease” event, and it’s recycled into biofuels by Texas-based American BioSource.