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Make Ottumwa Shine Litter Cleanup Set for April 20-23

The City of Ottumwa is proud to announce that the annual Make Ottumwa Shine litter cleanup event will take place from April 20-23, 2023. This event, which coincides with Earth Day, is a regular spring event that helps to make Ottumwa a more beautiful place to live, shop and work. […]
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Tips for saving a little green and the planet

How are you dealing with old newspaper, expired milk, broken latex gloves, and scraps? Besides disposing them into trash, is there any ways we could reuse them? Here are some tips on how to take advantage of this waste. Old newspaper: 1. Maintain and polish the shoes How: Make the newspaper […]
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Preparing Recycling For Collection

As you go through your week, and the recycling is accumulating, please keep these things in mind as you are assembling things in your recycling bin: When you bag all materials together, someone has to go through all of it and separate it. Paper is baled separately from cardboard. Glass, […]
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