January 11, 2013 DON'T flush your old medications down the toilet! That's how it gets into our water supply and affects plants, fish and other aquatic animals. According to our partners at the Northland's News Center, you can drop them off at WLSSD today for FREE!
January 5, 2012 The celebrating is done, the guests have gone home and you're taking down the decorations and holiday tree. Usually, you stick it in the snowbank outside and deal with it weeks later, but this year....most of us don't have a snowbank. So, what should you do? Treecycle with WLSSD! BUT, trees only! Wreaths, garland and other decorations should go in your trash. They have added many more locations for your convenience.
November 29, 2011 I guess I know what WLSSD's new ad campaign will be about.
Duluth-area residents and visitors are tossing more than 40 million beverage containers into the trash every year despite efforts to encourage recycling.
That’s the finding of a series of trash surveys conducted recently by the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District in Duluth.
In the latest effort, in October, WLSSD staff donned gloves and ripped open garbage bags on the tipping floor where garbage trucks dump their loads
