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Waste and Recycling

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Waste Management Association Sues City Over "Anti-Free Enterprise" Flow Control Ordinance

    ​Saw this one coming; so too did the city council. After all, in mid-September the council met behind closed doors with city attorneys to review "legal issues regarding proposed resource flow control ordinance" -- which, as I am sure you recall, is the ordinance directing all solid waste collecte ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Make the Neighbors Green with Envy

    ​Saw this one coming; so too did the city council. After all, in mid-September the council met behind closed doors with city attorneys to review "legal issues regarding proposed resource flow control ordinance" -- which, as I am sure you recall, is the ordinance directing all solid waste collecte ... More >>

  • News

    September 15, 2011

    Dallas Should Go With the Flow Control

    The sweet smell of money covers up garbage's stink.

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    So, Wait, We Weren't Supposed to Be Recycling Cartons? But Now We Can? Good to Know.

    Via.No?​Finally, a press release from Dallas City Hall that settles a long-simmering argument at my house: "Dallas becomes first major Texas city to add cartons to the list of acceptable recycling items." Son. Of. A. Clearly, I was wrong. Sorry, honey. My apologies. Never shoulda been putting thos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Before the Council Talks Trash This Morning ...

    ​No doubt most of you aren't all that concerned where your garbage gets dumped, so long as it's picked up and hauled off on time. That said, the subject's slowly but surely becoming a hot topic at City Hall, as City Manager Mary Suhm and Sanitation Services Director Mary Nix make their solid-waste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Talking Trash With the City Manager As She Looks At Ways to Generate Additional Revenue

    ​In a few weeks, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm will present to the city council some revenue-generating brainstorms she hopes could offset some of this year's $60-million-and-maybe-more budget shortfall. Among her proposals, she tells Unfair Park, will be one familiar to anyone paying attention la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Solid Waste-rs Tell Caraway They Really Don't Want to Be Told Where to Dump Trash

    ​Last June, we took a look at some moneymaking brainstorms Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm presented to the city council, which Suhm hoped would offset some of the $131-million budget shortfall with which she was faced at the time. Among them was one in particular that didn't get very far, or so it ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Walk This Green Way

    ​Last June, we took a look at some moneymaking brainstorms Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm presented to the city council, which Suhm hoped would offset some of the $131-million budget shortfall with which she was faced at the time. Among them was one in particular that didn't get very far, or so it ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2011

    Pile On Loads of Earthy Fun

    ​Last June, we took a look at some moneymaking brainstorms Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm presented to the city council, which Suhm hoped would offset some of the $131-million budget shortfall with which she was faced at the time. Among them was one in particular that didn't get very far, or so it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Come for the Super Bowl. Stay for the Skiing.

    Photos by Justin TerveenI texted Justin shortly past 1 a.m.: "You getting this?" Silly me. He was at Fair Park at that very moment, snapping away. For hi-res versions, and time-lapse video, go here.​Seven hours later and ... impressive. Unless you're, say, Sports Guy Bill Simmons, who shoots up th ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Should Garbage Collectors Be Allowed to Live?

    Photos by Justin TerveenI texted Justin shortly past 1 a.m.: "You getting this?" Silly me. He was at Fair Park at that very moment, snapping away. For hi-res versions, and time-lapse video, go here.​Seven hours later and ... impressive. Unless you're, say, Sports Guy Bill Simmons, who shoots up th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Trash and Culture on the Agenda at City Hall

    ​[Editor's note: Well, look who's returned to Unfair Park, none other than former Girl on Top Andrea Grimes. And, for some reason, she's decided to reintroduce herself with ... a liveblog from the Quality of Life Committee meeting at Dallas City Hall, where they're covering big changes in code com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Clearly, the City's Still Working Out the Kinks on Its Trash, Recycling Service

    ​Daniel's working on a OneDAY Dallas follow -- he's been hearing, ya know, things about the rest of the city's switch to weekly garbage and recycling pick-up. There have been "issues." Forthcoming. Till then, then, here's a just-sent tweet from City Hall concerning one particular mix-up. Another " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    If Your Trash Isn't Getting Picked Up, City Says: Well, It Could Have Been Worse

    ​Like Robert said, we were already working on a OneDAY Dallas follow-up post even before Dallas Sanitization Services's errant tweet, which was promptly deleted (and referenced later) following its posting on Unfair Park. First, let's address that issue before jumping into the larger OneDAY trash ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    In Stitches

    ​Like Robert said, we were already working on a OneDAY Dallas follow-up post even before Dallas Sanitization Services's errant tweet, which was promptly deleted (and referenced later) following its posting on Unfair Park. First, let's address that issue before jumping into the larger OneDAY trash ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    Power House

    ​Like Robert said, we were already working on a OneDAY Dallas follow-up post even before Dallas Sanitization Services's errant tweet, which was promptly deleted (and referenced later) following its posting on Unfair Park. First, let's address that issue before jumping into the larger OneDAY trash ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    A Green State (& Allen)

    Uptown Restaurant GM Is Out To Save The Planet, As Much As PossiblePatrick MichelsWhen Angela Birt signed on as general manager for State & Allen Lounge, she saw waste everywhere.Not extraordinary amounts of it, mind you--just the usual run on materials every restaurant goes through. "We use so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    What Happens When You Kill Your TV

    Kimberly ThorpeThere are about 219 Victory Park jokes to be had here. So, have at it.At noon today in Victory Park, a group of enviro-activists dressed for Halloween dropped to the concrete to rather dramatically mark the end of analog television. The switch from analog to digital television was sup ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Saving The Planet, One Party At A Time

    Care for a complimentary cocktail and appetizer? State and Allen Lounge will offer free drinks and hors d'oeuvres from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today. There's a catch: you may need an invitation--we've never been certain after carelessly tossing out the mailer--and you have to listen to a spiel about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Let's Talk Trash For a Second

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    Trash Ain't Nothin' but Cash

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Tom Kemper Goes Green, Makes Green

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    Hunting Down the Garbage Some Sanitation Workers Contend With

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2008

    Scrappy Doo

    Booker T. students junk up a lobby

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2007

    A Trashy Tale

    Booker T. students junk up a lobby

  • Calendar

    November 30, 2006

    Rent By the Hour

    Booker T. students junk up a lobby

  • Best of Dallas

    October 14, 2004

    Best Eco-Products

    Green Living

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Down in the Dump

    City's new recycling center just can't seem to master recycling

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Letters

    Letters from the issue of March 20.

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    Garbage by Numbers

    City's recycling rate takes a dive

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    Cash for Trash

    The city's new recycling center is up and running, sort of

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Law? What Law?

    Dallas cops don't need no stinking law

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Smells Funny

    So the mayor thinks the recycling program is trash? Hate to say we told you so.

  • News

    July 4, 2002

    Raise Taxes Now

    Plus: Fast and Dumb, Warped Criticism, Recycling Works

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    Trashy Questions

    City auditors take a belated look at Dallas' recycling program

  • News

    May 16, 2002

    Garbage In, Garbage Out

    Why Dallas' recycling program is a $17 million joke

  • Best of Dallas

    September 21, 2000

    Best children's art school

    J's Art Studio

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Dumped on

    Mistrust fuels McKinney's fight against plans for a landfill

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Trashy behavior

    Dallas gets blamed for doing too little to stop an illegal dump from choking a neighborhood

  • News

    August 7, 1997

    Dumped On

    How greedy property owners and careless bureaucrats let a massive illegal landfill grow in the back yard of a black Dallas neighborhood

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    Ill Wind Blowing

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • Dining

    March 28, 1996

    Hot Dish

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • News

    March 14, 1996

    Letters

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • News

    November 30, 1995

    Spouting rubbish

    Dallas has run out of recycling excuses

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