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PA Resources Council Receives 2025 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence For Hard-To-Recycling Collection Events

PA Environment Daily

In recognition of drop-off hard-to-recycle collection events-- which collected nearly one-half million pounds of material in 2024-- Pennsylvania Resources Council has received the 2025 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. “At Last year PRC’s hard-to-recycle program served 6,000 households who attended events. WESA and 91.3

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PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 9 Household Chemical Collection Event Sponsored By PPG & Pittsburgh Penguins; Last Of The Season

PA Environment Daily

PRC and partners provide residents with numerous options for recycling materials not accepted in curbside pickup, and since 2003 we’ve facilitated the safe management of more than six million pounds of household chemicals.” Loads exceeding 10 gallons/50 pounds will be subject to additional fees at discretion of on-site staff.

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The Drying Planet

Circle of Blue

Note: Data is for February 2003 to December 2013 and January 2014 to April 2024. And cities can look to recycle more of the water they use, as San Diego has. Graphics by Lucas Waldron/ProPublica. The first time period contains seven more months of data than the second. Graphics by Lucas Waldron/ProPublica.

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PA Resources Council Launches 2025 Household Chemical Collection Campaign April 12 In Butler County

PA Environment Daily

Since launching household chemical collection events in 2003, PRC and its many partners have facilitated the safe management of 6.5 million pounds of household chemicals collected at more than 100 events. Click Here for more information about the April 12 collection event or other upcoming events or call PRC at 412-488-7490.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 26 to May 2: Contaminated Livestock Water Supply; Ruptured Gathering Pipeline; Failure To Comply With Shale Gas Well Plugging Order

PA Environment Daily

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 59 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. The well was last inspected in 2003. Response requested by May 9. DEP inspection report. Deitz holds 326 permits. Read more here.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Soon and his various colleagues have been writing and recycling this same paper for almost two decades (how ecologically friendly!). 801-812, 2003. Rendiconti Lincei.

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PA Resources Council Hosts 2 Allegheny County Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In July

PA Environment Daily

In July, the Pennsylvania Resources Council will host two hard-to-recycle collection events in Allegheny County to enable area residents to conveniently dispose of numerous items not suitable for curbside recycling-- -- July 23: Quaker Valley High School, Leetsdale, from 9 a.m. –