2024 Yellow Springs Giving & Gifting Catalogue
Dec
22
2024

Articles About rumpke

  • Village Council | Regular Meeting Oct. 17

    By Jessica ThomasNovember 11, 2022

    Business conducted during Village Council’s most recent meeting Monday, Oct. 17, included the following topics: a noise ordinance, the fourth quarter supplemental budget, a Rumpke contrat and more.

  • Rumpke waste processing facility — Just don’t call it a garbage dump

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 5, 2016

    The Rumpke recycling facility outside of Cincinnati processes up to 55 tons of recyclables per day. The incoming materials are sorted by hand, then sorted further through a series of complicated mechanical processes. The Green Environmental Coalition recently organized a tour of the recycling center and landfill. (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    Trash is an inevitable part of life. A big part of life, to the tune of almost five pounds per person per day, and those five pounds of garbage have to go somewhere.

  • The Rumpke Landfill and Recycling Center: a YS News pictorial

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanApril 28, 2016

    An article published in this week’s paper discusses a recent tour of the Rumpke landfill and recycling center organized by Vickie Hennessy and Zero Waste Yellow Springs. Words cannot do the facilities justice.

  • One thousand acres of garbage

    By YS News StaffApril 23, 2016

    Yellow Springs’ garbage ends up in the Rumpke landfill in Colerain Township. The landfill serves most municipalities within a 60-mile radius and takes in about 6,000 tons of garbage per day.

  • Village Council — Home, Inc. and Township partner

    By Lauren HeatonAugust 6, 2015

    In the latest bid to acquire the former Wright State Physicians Clinic property on Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs Home, Inc. and Miami Township are partnering on a joint venture to site both affordable senior housing and a new fire station in town.

  • Aim is for a zero-waste Village

    By Megan BachmanApril 9, 2015

    Local recycling expert Tom Clevenger recently tumbled his compost barrel, which he uses to recycle his household’s kitchen scraps. Clevenger is working with other villagers to improve the town’s poor recycling record and find other ways to reduce and reuse waste here. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Is it possible to not produce any garbage — or purchase any stuff — for one year? A Vancouver couple did just that in 2009, and now it’s inspiring Yellow Springers to cut their waste too.

  • Solid waste rate hike approved

    By Diane ChiddisterDecember 1, 2011

    At their Nov. 21 meeting, Village Council members unanimously approved the final reading for a rate hike for Village solid waste disposal.

  • Rumpke issues new, larger recycling containers

    By YS News StaffSeptember 15, 2011

    Rumpke is rolling out larger recycling carts that could increase recycling in Yellow Springs.

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