2015 January : Papillion Sanitation

Week of January 25: TRASH COLLECTION is running approximately 1.5 days behind schedule. If your collection day has passed and we have not serviced your street, leave your carts out. We are running extra trucks and will be there as soon as it is safe to do so.

RECYCLING is suspended this week except for the following areas: City of Bellevue, Offutt/Rising View, City of Ralston, Village of Murray, and City of Louisville. Overflow recycling may be set out on your next scheduled collection day or taken to a drop off location. We apologize for any inconvenience and will resume normal collection schedules as soon as its safe for our drivers to do so.

Upcycling Sweaters

01/15/15

Winter is upon us, which means sweater season! Do you find that you have a few old sweaters that you are not wearing? Pull those sweaters off of the bottom of the shelf, and upcycle them into something useful and fun. Here are some ideas for upcycling old sweaters to get you started: Sweater pillow: This is a fairly simple…

Why Recycle

01/15/15

The term recycling is one that has become familiar to most everyone in the past few years. We know that old things can be turned into new things and that the less garbage we produce, less waste needs to be handled at the landfill. Here are some interesting statistics on the use of resources, and how they affect your daily…