by kai | Nov 10, 2015 | Local Media Coverage
A Macon-Bibb County committee approved a plan Tuesday to increase the residential cost for garbage and recycling collection countywide. The measure, approved 3-1 in the commission’s Operations and Finance Committee, is set to be heard by the full commission next...
by kai | Nov 2, 2015 | Local Media Coverage
Some Macon-Bibb County residents will soon have new containers to place trash and recyclables into. The distribution of new garbage cans and recycling bins to Macon-Bibb households will begin in the next several weeks. On Monday, Macon-Bibb employees unloaded the...
by kai | Oct 26, 2015 | Local Media Coverage
New trash bins and recycling bins will soon make their way to driveways in Macon. The recycling cans were bought to begin getting ready for county-wide recycling. Not all residents should expect to get the new waste bins soon. Of the 5,000 new trash cans that were...
by kai | Oct 26, 2015 | Local Media Coverage
Mostly bricks, blocks, and dirt make up the Macon-Bibb inert landfill. It’s a type of landfill that only takes in construction and yard waste materials. According to the county’s solid waste director, it’s set to close in less than 4 months. As far...
by kai | Sep 25, 2015 | Local Media Coverage
Macon-Bibb County is looking at a landfill crisis. The Inert landfill in Bibb County is not accepting any more yard waste and will officially close within six months. The Environmental Protection Division required the Inert landfill to close after it did not meet...
by kai | Sep 24, 2015 | Local Media Coverage
Have you ever had someone ask, “What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news?” Let’s start with the good news. For all the naysayers of consolidation and the requirement in the legislation that joined the city and county that the new government had to...
