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April 30, 2025
An EGLE mascot greets children at the Detroit Zoo. The “Recycling Raccoons” are credited with improving Michiganders’ knowledge about proper recycling.
What could fill the Detroit Lions’ Ford Field, University of Michigan’s Big House, Michigan State University’s Spartan Stadium, and Western Michigan University’s Lawson Ice Arena (home of the national champion Broncos) besides?
It’s not a sporting event. It’s the combined volume of materials Michiganders recycled in fiscal year (FY) 2024. If you’re having trouble imagining that, picture 10 Mackinac Bridges. That’s equivalent to the weight of all those recyclables kept out of Michigan landfills in just one year.
It’s also a state record: According to new data analysis by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) Michigan’s recycling rate has reached a new high for the fourth year in a row. The numbers have risen steadily from a pre-2019 rate of 14.25% to 23% in FY 2023 to more than 25% in the latest analysis.
Pictured: Curbside recycling bins like this one in Washtenaw County are proliferating around Michigan.
Here are more numbers that describe the good habits and great results that increasingly define recycling in our Great Lakes State:
Improved recycling performance is helping Michigan reach the goals of the MI Healthy Climate Plan, the state’s road map to a sustainable, prosperous, healthy, equitable, carbon-neutral Michigan economy by 2050.
“Recycling is not only the right thing to do” said EGLE recycling market development specialist Matt Flechter, “but also the smart thing to do.”
Resources and information for municipalities and residents are available on EGLE’s Recycling web page. Find answers to many of your recycling questions – and check out the “Recycling 101” video – on EGLE’s “Learn About Recycling” web page.
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The events will provide public hands-on opportunities to assess health of waterways.
The winning entries came from schools located in Beverly Hills, Grand Rapids, Lake Orion, Northville, Pinconning, Plymouth, Rochester Hills, and Rockford.
Save the dates for these NotMISpecies webinars in the coming months.
There are now 358 certified green schools in Michigan for the 2024-2025 school year – 15 more than the previous school year.
Percentage of materials recycled reaches new high for fourth consecutive year
While all Michigan households – homeowners or renters – can pursue energy efficiency upgrades, MiHER will prioritize households with incomes at or below 80% of their county’s Area Median Income (AMI). Across the two programs, households are eligible for up to $34,000 in rebates.
Program will support state climate goals, lower barriers to clean energy across Michigan
On Take Back Day, people in communities throughout the U.S. can drop off unwanted and expired medications at participating law enforcement locations in their area.
Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II will speak today – Earth Day – to more than 1,000 attendees of the third annual MI Healthy Climate Conference, hosted by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) at Huntington Place in Detroit.
