recycling

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is awarding more than $1 million dollars to 64 projects statewide collecting and recycling scrap tires, including three in West Michigan

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is awarding $5.6 million in grants to 30 Michigan projects to advance and grow markets for recycled materials

University of Michian Health-West is offering a new cancer treatment, a vacant church in Tyrone Township has been demolished, a look at a West Michigan company innovating recycling, and more.

West Nile has been detected in Ottawa County, Grand Rapids has approved tax incentives for a major office to housing conversion project, a visit to The Pack Indoor Dog Park.

NextCycle Michigan awards more than $100,000 to entrepreneurs, communities and groups advancing the "circular economy"

We talk to Matt Flechter with the MI Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.

Residents recycled just under one fourth of their waste over the past year

The city is implementing high-tech cameras, global positioning systems and computers on city recycling trucks

Shelly Irwin looks at the world of solo travel for women, a West Michigan hospital in Wyoming is buying land for expansion, Union High School has restored 8 tennis courts, and more state and West Michigan news.

Once collected, the wrap is sold to companies that turn it into post-consumer resin pellets, which can be used in the manufacturing of other items