Earl (Spud) Rowley is executive director of Keep Kimball Beautiful and manager of the Kimball Recycling Center. He has been in this position since February 2017. Recently the City of Kimball Board of Public Works compiled data about the city-owned landfill and compared it with data from the Kimball Recycling Center to calculate the savings or loss their recycling program provided to taxpayers in 2018.

Announced by NEDEE in June, the Nebraska Recycling Council was awarded a WRR Grant that will fund a six-month project to build a community toolkit containing resources useful to rural municipalities. It will contain best practices in resource recovery systems, funding information for recycling programs, case studies, waste characterization methodologies, sample ordinances, analysis and decision-making tools.

Community Services Fund of Nebraska connects companies, employees, and Nebraska non-profits. They support employers in their efforts to increase community engagement, and they support employees and individual donors in their efforts to increase the quality of life in their community. Plus, their non-profit member organizations represent education, environment, social justice, animals, the arts, and more.

To celebrate Earth Day, NRC held a CHaRM Event (Collection for Hard to Recycle Materials) at Nebraska Innovation Campus on Saturday, April 27th. We had a successful day, collecting a total of 27,882 pounds of recyclables, more than double the amount from last year.