Recycling

County reminds recyclers to keep it clean (02/18/10)
Plymouth County citizens are being reminded to use the large metal recycling bin at the Plymouth County Courthouse responsibly. The large metal recycling bin on the Plymouth County Courthouse block is provided for the rural citizen of Plymouth County to deposit their recyclable materials...

Earth-friendly ECO Center may be finished within year (02/15/10)
The architect for the planned Education Conservation Opportunities (ECO) Center at Hillview Park near Hinton is getting down to the nuts and bolts. With ground-breaking slated for late spring, representatives from M Plus Architects are telling the Plymouth County Conservation Department it could be using the building for meetings, education and other purposes as soon as Jan. 1, 2011...

Remember to recycle after Christmas (12/26/09)
Christmas wrap, cardboard boxes, holiday cards and envelopes -- they're all recyclable. "The residents of Le Mars can place it all in their blue containers and or blue bags," said Mark Kunkel, Plymouth County Landfill manager. Rural residents can take their Christmas recyclables to the landfill or put their blue bags in the dumpster at the Plymouth County Courthouse, Kunkel said...

Recycle open house educates Le Mars residents (10/20/09)
Le Mars residents will have an opportunity to learn about recycling options during a Chamber of Commerce "After 5" event Thursday, from 5 to 6 p.m. at city hall. The "Recycle Open House" is a way to encourage Le Mars residents to recycle garbage items in an environmentally safe way, according to city staff members...

Paper Collection (09/04/09)
Newspapers, magazines and computer paper for recycling by Le Mars Elementary School students. Paper will be picked up at the following times and locations: 8-9 a.m. dropoff available at Kissinger Elementary School, Merrill; 8-10 a.m. dropoff available at O'Toole Park drop point, 415 First Avenue N.E., Le Mars; 8:30 a.m. ...

City will offer free December trash pickup (09/02/09)
Le Mars Solid Waste Committee members are providing early news of a "Christmas present" for local residents, according to Assistant City Administrator Bill Cole. The gift, revealed during Tuesday's Le Mars City Council session, is a free trash pickup for the month of December...

Kehms' green project exceeds expectations (07/27/09)
Sometimes -- albeit rarely -- everything that can possibly go right does. Sometimes donations pour in and you get all three grants for which you apply. Such is the case for Le Mars Community senior-to-be Brian Kehm. Kehm and his sister Sarah, who will be a freshman at Iowa State this fall, have been hard at work with their 4-H club since last fall securing donations and grant money to help make the Plymouth County Fair a greener place...

Code Green: Recycling program takes off at FVH (04/22/09)
Floyd Valley Hospital is "going green" on Earth Day. The hospital is kicking off a new recycling program today (Wednesday). Tim Paul, FVH's chief engineer who also heads up the hospital's "Green Committee," said it's fitting to start the hospital's recycling program on Earth Day...

Recycling on the rise, city residents fill totes (03/06/09)
City of Le Mars residents want to recycle. That's why city solid waste officials decided, starting Jan. 1, to add a second pickup day allowing residents to empty their blue recycling totes twice a month. "We were getting a lot of requests for that. People were filling up their blue recycle tote and wanting them to get emptied and start over," said Bill Cole, city administrator. "We saw a need based on consumer requests."...

Siblings look to "go green" at the Plymouth County Fair (02/18/09)
Choosing to forgo a traditional sibling rivalry, Sarah and Brian Kehm have decided to team up instead. And their parents are not the only beneficiaries of their partnership. All of Plymouth County stands to gain from the collaboration, as Sarah, a senior at Le Mars Community Schools (LCS) and Brian, a LCS junior, are using a 4-H project to help make the Plymouth County Fair a greener place...

Le Mars takes going green seriously (01/20/09)
It could cover a football field about 3 or 4 feet deep, according to Mark Kunkel of the Plymouth County Sanitary landfill. He's referring to the 324 tons of cardboard, paper, plastic, metal and other materials Plymouth County residents recycled in 2008...

Awareness keeps recycling trend on the rise (06/17/08)
Education. That's the reason about 10,000 more pounds have been recycled this year compared to last year, city and county officials said. In Le Mars, as of the end of May,132,060 pounds were recycled compared with 85,000 in May 2007. When the recycling program began in 2005 during this same time period 61,680 pounds were recycled...

Earth Day: Learning what it means to save the planet (04/23/08)
Saving the world doesn't necessarily require wearing a cape and blue tights. That's what elementary students from Hinton learned while tromping around Hillview Park Tuesday in honor of the 38th annual Earth Day. At one station, students picking chocolate chips out of a cookie to learn about how coal is mined. ...

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