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Update at 5:25 p.m. -- It's "too early to tell" whether a disaster declaration will be made due to the extensive damage from today's flooding, an Arlington

Update at 11:20 a.m. -- Arlington County's Solid Waste Bureau has issued the following statement about trash collection in the wake of Monday's flooding. In it,

Soon it will be that time of year — time to get rid of the Christmas tree. Here’s how to dispose of your tree depending on where you live in the D.C. area.

Those who decorated for Christmas with real trees this year can have their festive fire hazards collected by the county starting next week. From Monday, Jan. 3

Arlington County will start collecting residents’ food scraps on Labor Day. Residents receiving county curbside collection services — mostly those in single-family homes and townhouses — will be able to toss unused food into their green yard waste bins and bring them to the curb on collection day, starting Monday, Sept. 6. Those scraps will be composted in Prince William County and returned to Arlington as soil. “This is going to be for everybody who is a part of the household solid was...

Arlington program reusing food scraps Arlington officials are making an unusual requests – they’re asking residents to give them their food scraps. ARLINGTON, Va. - Arlington officials have what may seem like an unusual request – they want your leftover scraps of food. "We’re going to use it to basically make a soil amendment of some kind," explained Solid Waste Bureau Chief Erik Grabowski. "So the compost will come back and people will use it for various organic projects around their h...

NMED Seeks To Fill Three Division Director Positions NMED News: SANTA FE — The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) is seeking qualified applicants to lead three of its divisions. The directors of the Water Protection Division (WPD), the Resource Protection Division (RPD) and the Environmental Health Division (EHD) are critical to advancing the Department’s mission of protecting public health and the environment. Division directors take a leadership role in protecting New Mexico’s la...

Arlington County will be sending its yard waste and food scraps to Prince William County. At Saturday’s County Board meeting, the board approved a new agreement to send organic compost to a new state-of-the-art composting facility in Prince William County. Until November last year, the county was sending compost to a Loudoun County facility but that facility has since ceased operations. Back in 2016, Arlington County began year-round residential curbside collection of organic material like gr...