Casper Solid Waste Management

The City of Casper will set one extra collection day per month solely for branches, which will reuse the branches for compost and save landfill space.

One of Casper's nine recycling depots will close next week, and a new depot will open next month, the city's solid waste manager said in a news release Tuesday.

A state funded grant program to pay for landfill remediation is at the heart of one piece of draft legislation going to Cheyenne next month. Casper faces an estimated clean up cost from previous land fill practices of anywhere between $6 and $15 million...

A yard waste collection program in Casper gets a limited start up in May. The program, beginning with Thursday's route, is designed to divert things like leaves, dead plant material or grass clippings out of the land fill, in turn saving money by extending the landfills life...