One Cart Recycling in Jenks
Jenks city residents are now able to place their loose recyclables into city trash carts along with their normal bags of trash. American Waste Control collects the trash and sorts [...]
Reducing Waste at Home
Energy is often wasted in our homes in ways we don’t even notice. Look around your home and see how you can save energy and waste by doing some simple [...]
Reducing Waste at School
Helping the environment at school can be as simple as what you take for lunch. Try packing a waste free lunch to eliminate wrappers, plastic, and other things that only [...]
The Problem of E-Waste
We all know about the good things that come with today’s technology advances. Mobile apps and computers, media and electronic gadgets galore. We love them all and can’t get enough. [...]
How Does Mr. Murph Do His Thing?
Good question…Here’s a quick summary… The commingled trash is collected from customer collection bins and transported to the MRF facility where we mechanically and manually sort out recyclables and [...]
Choose to Reuse
Reusing something means using an item more than once. If we get in the habit of purposefully reusing things not only can we save bookoo bucks, but we can also [...]
Trash to Cash
No doubt recycling is catching on and becoming a habit for many of us—I’m thankful for that—but there’s still a majority out there who don’t recycle…and that’s a problem. We [...]
Mr. Murph at a Glance
Here are some quick facts about our super duper recycling maniac, Mr. Murph 117,000 sq ft (almost 3 acres) under roof all on the DEQ permitted total of 8 acres. [...]
Way to Go, Tulsa on the Big 3 Mill!
Wooo hooooo Tulsa…already we’ve recovered over 3,000,000 pounds of recyclables so far during this year’s Unboxing Christmas 12 day campaign. We’ve made it really easy for people this year. You [...]
Tis the Season to Recycle
A good recycling tip this time of year is to be sure and buy good quality decorations you can use year after year. The better made they are the more [...]