How is wastewater in Central Minnesota recycled and put back into the Mississippi River? WJON gets a behind the scenes look at the St. Cloud Water Treatment Plant to find out.
A new study says a 10-cent refund on recyclable drink containers would cost beverage producers $29 million a year but boost recycling and create a net gain of over 1,000 jobs in Minnesota.
Many of us have items in our homes that we hardly use that ends up making its way to our trash cans. As we start off the new year, maybe your resolution is to do a better job when it comes to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
After surging in the 1980s, Minnesota's recycling rate has stagnated for most of the last two decades. But green advocates think they have something to boost it: food scraps. They predict organics recycling will sweep Minnesota the same way that recycling of aluminum, glass and paper has.
With Earth Day this weekend a St. Cloud car dealership is going above and beyond to get the word out about recycling. St. Cloud Subaru has donated $10,000 in recycling bins to the St. Cloud Area parks, as well as an additional $2,000 to St. Cloud State University to launch a Go Green initiative.
With the approaching holiday season comes the annual tradition of hanging Christmas lights. Once again this year, officials remind you to recycle your old tangled clump of lights and replace them with new energy efficient LED lights.