{"id":5387,"date":"2026-09-28T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/st-louis-recycling-change-creates-new-business\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:47:02","slug":"st-louis-recycling-change-creates-new-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/st-louis-recycling-change-creates-new-business\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Recycling Change Creates New Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FmXwGJ8rXNWA%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet the STL Resident Who&amp;apos;s Taking Recycling Pickup Into His Own Hands | Living St. Louis\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXwGJ8rXNWA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 28, 2026 (STL.News) A major change to St. Louis\u2019 recycling program has created an unexpected opportunity for a locally owned small business that is selling something the city no longer provides to many residents: convenient recycling pickup. Recycle With Me, founded by St. Louis entrepreneur Erik Kozlowski, provides residential recycling pickup for customers who don\u2019t want to haul their recyclables to one of the city\u2019s drop-off locations. The business emerged after St. Louis decided to discontinue recycling collection from blue alley dumpsters in August 2025. While city officials say that decision has substantially<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-recycling-change-creates-new-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 28, 2026 (STL.News) A major change to St. Louis\u2019 recycling program has created an unexpected opportunity for a locally owned small business that is selling something the city no longer provides to many residents: convenient&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}