recycling

Microplastics in lakes and ponds can cause algae to grow out of control — depriving fish and other aquatic life of oxygen.

The bill’s author, Sen. Mark Messmer (R-Jasper), said it could help Indiana to reach its goal of recycling half its waste.

Does it really help climate change to recycle plastic? The answer is yes — if you’re doing it right.

Though recycling has gone up in the state in the past five years, only 20 percent of Indiana’s waste was recycled last year.

The city of Bloomington’s recycling service resumed Monday after pausing last week because of a spike in COVID-19 cases and close contacts in the sanitation department.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s protocol, those who are unvaccinated and close contacts must not work for at least seven days.

City of Bloomington will not be picking up recycling this week due to a spike in COVID-19 cases and close contacts at the sanitation department, the city said in a release Sunday.

Indianapolis' Can Lady has been effecting change in her community through environmentalism for the past 10 years.