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Submissions will close soon! Don't miss out!

District O is still seeking community input on all things recycling! Our 2026 Survey is vital to ensuring we prioritize your recycling and waste needs. Please take a minute or two and share with us your experiences with recycling and how you'd like us to continue serving you.

Fill out the survey here: https://forms.gle/CLSaBsEtFac8iGQp7

How do you want to recycle?

District O's Solid Waste Plan Survey 2026 is still open! Don't miss this chance to make your voice heard on what you'd like to see our district prioritize, from recycling services to the challenges you experience in managing your waste and recycling efforts.

Fill out our short survey on our website via the link in our bio!

We want to hear from you!

District O is currently accepting responses to our 2026 Solid Waste Plan Survey! This survey helps us to inform our decisions towards which recycling initiatives to prioritize as well as to receive new ideas from our community. Please take just a minute or two out of your day to fill out our survey!

Fill the survey here: https://forms.gle/CLSaBsEtFac8iGQp7

Let's work together to make our community beautiful!

Do you have easy access to recycling? Want something different? Let us know!

District O is taking feedback with our 2026 survey and we want to hear every detail of your waste experience, positive and negative! This survey allows us to adjust our plans for the future to better serve our community, but we can't do it without you!

Fill out our survey here: https://forms.gle/N2CTLUW9Z8W8YXgM8 and share it so every voice is counted!

Solid Waste Management District O Solid Waste Plan Survey 2026

District O wants to hear from you! Please take a minute or two out of your day and let us know some ways we can better serve our community!

Find the survey here: https://forms.gle/dg9JDdiQZEy4YKHp6

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📣Join the Missouri Product Stewardship Council (MOPSC) for a FREE webinar:

PaintCare Program Implementation: Case Studies from Illinois and Maryland
📅 Wednesday, June 17
🕐 1:00–2:30 PM ET

PaintCare has collected more than 90 million gallons of leftover paint since launching in Oregon in 2010, with nearly 84% of latex paint recycled into new paint. As the program continues expanding across the country, this webinar will provide an inside look at how PaintCare develops, launches, and implements successful paint stewardship programs.

Featured speaker Jacob Saffert, Director of Eastern States for PaintCare, will discuss:
✅ How PaintCare programs are established through model legislation
✅ Program development, launch, and first-year implementation
✅ Common challenges and solutions
✅ Stakeholder engagement and infrastructure development
✅ Lessons learned from recent launches in Illinois and Maryland

The webinar will be moderated by Amanda Nicholson, Chief of Operations at the Product Stewardship Institute.

Whether you’re a local government official, recycler, solid waste professional, policymaker, or sustainability advocate, this is a great opportunity to learn about one of the nation’s most successful product stewardship programs.

🔗 Register today and join the conversation!

https://productstewardship.us/events/paintcare-program-implementation-case-studies-from-illinois-and-maryland/

The 9Rs of Circularity provide a practical blueprint for this shift:

1️⃣ Refuse – Eliminate unnecessary consumption at the source
2️⃣ Rethink – Redesign systems for efficiency and longevity
3️⃣ Reduce – Minimize resource use without reducing value
4️⃣ Reuse – Extend the life of products through repeated use
5️⃣ Repair – Restore instead of replace
6️⃣ Refurbish – Upgrade existing products for renewed value
7️⃣ Remanufacture – Rebuild products using recovered components
8️⃣ Repurpose – Transform old materials into new functions
9️⃣ Recycle – Recover materials when no other option remains

Each step moves us further away from extraction and closer to regeneration.

How can we work together regionally? Grant Call: The National Household Wasted Food Prevention Project (NHWFPP) will develop, launch, and implement a coordinated, nationwide effort to reduce wasted food in households by 10% per capita nationally and by 20% per capita in communities supported through grants by 2030. To this end, two grant opportunities are now available:
🔹 Innovator Grants ($75K–$300K): Support focused creative, locally tailored strategies to motivate target audiences to prevent wasted food.
🔹 Catalyst Grants ($300K–$750K): Support larger-scale projects to implement household wasted food prevention strategies across a variety of communities.

Eligible applicants include nonprofits, tribal and local governments, U.S. territories and states, and higher education institutions.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will award around 15 or more grants focused on wasted food prevention — helping households buy, store, prepare, and use food in ways that prevent food from being thrown in the trash.This initiative will target parents of children under 18, and young adults ages 18 to 35.

Applications are due September 1. To learn more:
➡ Visit the landing page: grants.endingwastedfood.org
➡ Join the info webinar: Thursday, May 28, 2-3 PM ET —tinyurl.com/RFAwebinarEWF

Do you have old ni****ne vapes or unused prescription medications at home? The Drug Responsbility Education and Advocacy Movement (DREAM) is partnering with us to provide four free recycling locations for you to safely dispose of vapes and medications today, April 25!

Stop by before 2 p.m. at one of these sites: Sam’s Club (745 E. Camino Alto Dr.), Alps Pharmacy (2650 W. Kearney Street), Mercy Pharmacy (1965 S. Fremont Ave.) or the Republic Branch Library (921 N. Lindsey Ave.)

Thank you for helping us keep hazardous and pharmaceutical waste out of our landfill and the environment.