Thanks to an agreement the City of Santa Clarita has with the valley’s franchised waste hauler, bulky items can be picked up for FREE. Each residence that has active trash and recycling service with Waste Management, can dispose of large items for FREE by scheduling a bulky item pick-up or by dropping the item off at their local facility during ...

Santa Clarita residents are invited to take part in this weekend’s hazardous waste and e-waste recycling collection drive, officials said Monday. The hazardous waste and e-waste recycling roundup for Santa Clarita is scheduled for Saturday, April 6 in the south parking lot of College of the Canyons from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Acceptable types of waste for this particular ...

Santa Clarita officials are encouraging residents to think green this spring as the city becomes more eco-friendly, officials said. Protecting the environment has been a City priority since its incorporation, according to City officials. Since 2005, over 91 percent of construction and demolition debris in Santa Clarita has been recycled, totaling over 106,000 tons of reusable materials, according to officials. ...

Recycling old, leftover, unwanted paint is made easier with PaintCare of the Santa Clarita Valley. They offer paint steward programs on behalf of paint manufacturers in states that have passed paint steward laws. This is a very wonderful program that is beneficial to the ecology of the planet. Rather than just discarding old paint in the garbage which is bad ...

Santa Clarita Valley recyclers looking to step up their garbage-sorting game are urged to follow these steps, provided by Waste Management, when separating trash to help reduce what goes to the landfill. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The biggest way to be more eco-friendly, according to the recycling agency, is properly separating ...

By: Micaela Bensko Sustainability is a pretty common word these days. Recycling has swiftly become the 11th commandment and up-cycling the latest in the do-it-yourself craze. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Three high school students have taken up-cycling to another level, one overlooking issues affecting our planet created by the fast-fashion ...

The city of Santa Clarita partnered with Los Angeles County to celebrate the recycling efforts of Santa Clarita junior high and high school students. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. In partnership with the Los Angeles County 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger, the William S. Hart Union High School District and the ...

Students and staff at Helmers Elementary are working to save the environment with the “Grades Of Green” program, which challenges schools to encourages trash-free lunches. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Volunteers at Helmers have dedicated their lunchtime to supporting the nonprofit by taking on the one week challenge designed to decrease ...

This November, Californians will be able to choose how the state should mandate the use of money generated from the sales of “single-use” bags. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The state signed SB 270 into law in 2014, which “prohibits most grocery stores, convenience stores, large pharmacies and liquor stores in ...

Five works of art created from recyclable trash were chosen as winners in the city of Santa Clarita’s 2016 “cArt aRt” competition, officials announced Wednesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The competition was held at the city’s annual Earth Arbor Day Festival in conjunction with the annual KHTS Home and Garden ...