Recycling

ReUse Textile Recycling Service: Recycling, Collecting and Transporting Donated Textiles Benefiting Houston Nonprofits

ReUse Textile Recycling Services, a Houston recycling service dedicated to reducing textile waste, is offering a simplified, transparent no contact donation collection and transportation of used clothing, shoes, and home goods that benefits local Houston nonprofits. “While recycling continues to grow in the U.S., on average, most people dump half of their body weight in clothing into landfills every year where it can sit for 200 years while 95 percent of used textiles could have […]

Katy City Council Briefed on Updated Recycling Policies

Katy Police Officer Steve Kelleher reins in the department’s new police dog, Kiko, at Thursday’s City Council meeting as Chief Noe Diaz, back to camera, briefs the council. Photo courtesy Chris Harris

By George Slaughter The City of Katy’s recycling policy has changed in recent months due to national events. Katy City Council members Thursday received a briefing about the recycling processes used by the city’s recycling vendor, as well as information about what could and could not be recycled. In September, the city announced it would no longer accept glass as an item for recycle. The city said the change was due to the decline in […]