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Guess What? It’s Weed Control Season! You might thing winter has just started here in the Truckee Meadows, right? Well, we’re pretty sure your weeds have been thinking otherwise and the weed seeds are preparing germinate. The weather continues to remain unusually warm – and this means all of us in the Truckee Meadows need Continue reading
Phone Book Recycling Program Extended From January 22 through February 5 The annual AT&T “Project ReDirectory” phone book recycling program Northern Nevada has been extended and will now run through February 5th. Residents have two additional weeks to recycle their phone books at select City of Reno, City of Sparks and Washoe County drop-off locations. Continue reading
Community helps KTMB meet $10,000 NV Energy match! Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful Board Member Jeff Brigger, an Economic Development Executive for NV Energy, enthusiastically presented a $10,000 check from NV Energy as a result of matching community donations during the annual Christmas Tree Recycling program. This was the 21st year for the annual recycling program Continue reading
Phone Book Recycling Program Extended From January 22 through February 5 The annual AT&T “Project ReDirectory” phone book recycling program Northern Nevada has been extended and will now run through February 5th. Residents have two additional weeks to recycle their phone books at select City of Reno, City of Sparks and Washoe County drop-off Continue reading
Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful’s Christmas Tree Recycling Program is coming to an end on Monday, January 16th. Christmas trees can be dropped off at Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Rancho San Rafael Park, and Shadow Mountain Sports Complex. There is a suggested $3 donation per tree. For the first time ever, NV Energy is matching dollar Continue reading
Reduced Rates and Free Select Dumping on January 7th and 8th The first quarterly Residential Dump Days will be January 7th and 8th at the Waste Management Transfer Stationsin Reno. Residential Dump Days are held solely at the Transfer Stations in Reno – Lockwood Landfill is closed on weekends. Identified materials commonly associated with illegal dumping Continue reading
The annual AT&T Real Yellow Pages “Project ReDirectory” phone book recycling program runs from December 28th 2011 through January 22nd 2012. AT&T Real Yellowpages will donate trees to area parks when they are recycled at select Reno, Sparks and Washoe County park locations. Please see the list below for drop-off locations. In addition to the Continue reading
Tomorrow, City of Reno Staff will present the Reno City Council with their proposed changes and outlook on direction of Waste Management’s Solution to Recycling and Materials Recovery Facility Issues. This will be followed by discussion. What does this all mean? Waste Management (WM) has presented the municipalities with new plan implementing single stream recycling and Continue reading
♫♪♫♫♪♪ The sounds of the season are all around us! Gifts are being bought, carols are being sung, and trees are being decorated! The holidays precede our Christmas Tree Recycling Program. That’s right, you can recycle that Christmas tree instead of tossing it into the landfill! For three weeks, volunteers will be gleefully plugging away Continue reading
What are we thankful for? Well, this past Friday, Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful and Nevada Land Conservancy came really close to losing our office in the Caughlin Fire. We were lucky with scorching around all sides of the office that our office still stands! Our previous office across Del Monte was lost in the fire. Continue reading
