Food: We all Purchase It, Consume It and Discard It Everyone eats out at some point, grocery shops, prepares food at home and unfortunately discards food. Do you know how much food waste is [...]

I Want to Bring My HHW Materials, but How Do I Prepare Them?   Cleaning out the garage or shed is a sure sign of spring. With the spring like weather we have already experienced, you may [...]

What Happens to the Separated Brush and Leaves? Last post we talked about the importance of source separating brush and leaves when dropping off yard waste at the yard waste compost lots. Now [...]

    You’ve rake the leaves and cleaned up the yard. Materials are loaded into your vehicle and you are headed to one of the yard waste compost lots in the District. Maybe you have [...]

The Northeast Indiana Solid Waste Management District (NISWMD), or District for short, has been around for several years now. Despite outreach programs, publicity and educational campaigns, there [...]

The Northeast Indiana Solid Waste District had the opportunity to discuss resource recovery programs like recycling and composting with State Representative Dennis Kruse, State Senator Sue Glick [...]

Plastic grocery bags, plastic packaging, disposable plastic drink cups. It has long been a challenge to find a company that can accept these items for recycling. The Northeast Indiana Solid Waste [...]

Come Thursday, July 9th LaGrange County residents and Town of LaGrange residents can enjoy a more cohesive one-stop drop location. The rural recycling drop-off bins that were located at near the [...]