News & Events
Saturday, September 23, 2023, 8-10am (or earlier if truck fills up) – Electronics Recycling Event in Wayne
Our annual fall electronics recycling event is Saturday, September 23rd, 8:00 – 10:00 am. Enter eastbound on 3rd Street between Lincoln and Pearl, across from the City Hall parking lot. Third Street will be closed to all westbound traffic. Help keep harmful substances out of landfills and bring your electronics to be recycled. For more details on acceptable items and fees, click here.
Sunday, April 23, 2023, 7pm – Free Earth Day movie, Kiss the Ground
Join us at the Majestic Theatre for a free screening of the bold documentary, Kiss the Ground. The film provides a solution to heal our planet. Through regenerative agriculture, we can help balance our climate, replenish our freshwater supplies, and feed the world. Kiss the Ground unveils a game changer to our climate crisis. Doors open at 6:30pm with a chance to talk with conservation and policy experts and see hands-on demos for zero waste tips. The 84-minute film begins at 7 pm. This free event is hosted for our community by the City of Wayne Green Team, the WSC Green Team, and the A. Jewell Schock Natural History Museum, with funding from the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy. Bring your own popcorn container and cup to make this a zero waste event!
Friday, April 21, 2023, 10am - Earth Day Chamber Coffee
Bring your own mug to the Wayne Public Library as you hear the latest on how to reduce, reuse, and recycle in Wayne with our hands-on demos and local green living experts. We’ll also announce the recipient of this year’s Zero Hero award.
Tuesday - October 18, 2022, 6pm, Solar Panel Workshop
Want to learn more about solar power for your home? Come hear from residents in Wayne about their experience with solar panels and from GRNE Solar about how solar works, the equipment involved, state incentives, and more at this workshop in the SNBuilding Gym at 1010 Main Street in Wayne. For more information, contact gfphelps36@gmail.com or call (402) 369-1818.
Saturday - September 24, 2022: 8am-10am (or earlier if truck fills up) - Electronics Recycling Event in Wayne
Our annual fall electronics recycling event is Saturday, September 24th, 8 – 10a.m. Enter eastbound on 3rd Street between Lincoln and Pearl, across from the City Hall parking lot. Third Street will be closed to all westbound traffic. Help keep harmful substances out of landfills and bring your electronics to be recycled. For more details on acceptable items and fees, click here.
Tuesday - April 26, 2022: 4pm-6pm - Walking Trail Clean Up (New Date: Originally April 24)
Join the WSC Exercise is Medicine Club in a spring clean-up of the Wayne Walking Trail. Meet at the Ping Pong tables across from Wildcat Lanes at 3:50 p.m. to be assigned a group and trail section. The goal is to pick up as much trash as possible to keep the city we love clean!
Saturday, April 30, 2022: 1-4pm - Roots to Leaves Earth Day Celebration
Visit the Haskell Ag Lab in Concord, Nebraska for free events, including an arboretum tour, kid activities, and demos on tree planting, tree and shrub pruning, plants and pollinators, how to begin a vegetable garden, and more. For details, visit hal.unl.edu/earthday2022.
Sunday - April 24, 2022: 7pm - Earth Day Movie, My Octopus Teacher
Join us at the Majestic for a free screening of the uplifting documentary, My Octopus Teacher. The film follows the story of an unusual friendship between a filmmaker and an octopus living in a South African kelp forest. My Octopus Teacher helps us discover the fragility of life and humanity's connection to nature. This film won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2021. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for recycling demos, and the 85-minute film begins at 7 pm. This free event is hosted by the City of Wayne Green Team, the WSC Green Team and the A. Jewell Schock Museum of Natural History. Bring your own popcorn container and cup to help make this a zero waste event.
Friday - April 22: 10am Zero Waste Chamber Coffee on Earth Day
Bring your own mug and join us for coffee and homemade pastries at the Wayne Public Library. You'll learn on how to reduce, reuse and recycle in Wayne with our hands-on demos.
February 8, 2022 - 5pm-6pm: Community Solar Power 101
The Wayne Green Team invites community members to a special meeting on Tuesday, February 8, 5pm-6pm, for a Community Solar Power 101 talk led by Josh Moenning, mayor of Norfolk, Nebraska. Learn about Norfolk's 8.5-megawatt community solar project, Moenning's experiences in the renewable energy field, and how clean energy projects can create economic and environmental benefits in our communities. The special evening meeting will be held in the SNBuilding Gym at 1010 Main Street in Wayne.
Details on Norfolk's new community solar project can be found here. For more info about the Wayne Green Team, like Wayne Green Team on Facebook or visit www.cityofwayne.org/greenteam.
October 16, 2021 - 8am-10am - Household Hazardous Waste Event at Wayne RTC
On Saturday, October 16, from 8-10 a.m., you can recycle your household hazardous waste (HHW) at the Wayne Recycling & Trash Center (RTC) at 110 Windom Street. Your $10 drop-off fee includes HHW items such as latex & oil-based paint, pesticides, herbicides, oil, cleaning chemicals, yard & garden chemicals, anti-freeze, car batteries, mercury & mercury containing devices, and fluorescent light bulbs, including CFLs. Household quantities only. Not Accepted: tires, electronics, appliances, PCBs, picric acid, science lab materials, radioactive materials, or biological hazards. This event is sponsored by Northeast Nebraska RC&D, Nebraska Environmental Trust, Wayne Green Team and Waste Connections.
September 18, 2021 - 8am-10am (or earlier if truck fills up) - Electronics Recycling Event in Wayne
Our annual fall electronics recycling event is Saturday, September 18, 8-10 am. Enter eastbound on 3rd Street between Lincoln and Pearl, across from the City Hall parking lot. Third Street will be closed to all westbound traffic. Help keep harmful substances out of landfills and bring your electronics to be recycled. For more details on acceptable items and fees, click here.
September 28, 2020
Our annual fall electronics recycling event is postponed until fall 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns. If you prefer not to wait, try Nebraska Electronics Recycling & Disposal in Norfolk. Call first at 402-750-6093 to confirm what they will take and if there are any fees. You can also take certain electronics to Best Buy for free recycling.
April 22, 2020
The Wayne Green Team presented Pac N Save, a family-owned grocery store, with its Zero Hero award recognizing outstanding work in reducing, reusing, and recycling within the community of Wayne. Pac N Save rewards the environment and the community with its Bag Credit Donation Program. For every bag a customer reuses, Pac N Save gives back 5 cents to either take off the bill or donate to a designated community organization for the quarter. Although this program is on hold during the current coronavirus health guidelines, when it returns, the next recipient for the bag credit donation will be the Wayne Public Library’s Summer Reading Program.
March 26, 2020
The Wayne Recycling & Trash Center remains open during this time by Gill Hauling, but we ask all users to recognize and participate in the required social distancing to help keep everyone safe, and to do your own unloading of items. Gill Hauling is cleaning and disinfecting the areas as needed. We thank Gill for their efforts and our community for continuing to recycle right during these challenging times. See the updated flyer on what items are accepted for recycling; fees apply to all trash brought into the Recycling & Trash Center. If you have questions, please call Gill Hauling at 402-375-1856.
Link: Wayne Recycling & Trash Center Flyer (PDF)
Changes to Battery Recycling Program
See updates to our Battery Recycling Program and make sure you do not use plastic bags or leave any plastic bags in the recycling bin at the library. See the changes on our Battery Recycling page.
October 12, 2019 - Household Hazardous Waste Collection - 8-10 am
The Wayne Transfer Station, 110 Windom St, will host a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event. Your $10 drop-off fee includes household hazardous waste items such as latex and oil-based paints, pesticides, herbicides, oil, yard & garden chemicals, anti-freeze, car batteries, mercury & mercury-containing devices including light bulbs. Household quantities only. Not Accepted: tires, household batteries, electronics, appliances, PCBs, picric acid, science lab materials, radioactive materials, or biological hazards. Sponsored by Northeast Nebraska RC&D, Nebraska Environmental Trust, Wayne Green Team and Gill Hauling.
September 14, 2019 - 8am-10am (or earlier if trucks fills up) - Electronics Recycling Event in Wayne
Our annual fall electronics recycling event is Saturday, September 14th, 8am-10am. Enter eastbound on 3rd Street between Lincoln and Pearl, across from the City Hall parking lot. Third Street will be closed to all westbound traffic. Help keep harmful substances out of landfills and bring your electronics to be recycled. For more details on acceptable items and fees, click here.
May 1, 2019 - Changes to Battery Recycling Program
Starting May 1, only small, household batteries will be accepted for recycling. These include alkaline, zinc carbon, NiMH, NiCd, less than 9 volts, non-lithium button cell and lithium & lithium-ion with exposed terminals that require taping. Due to costs, we will no longer accept large batteries, such as lead acid, electronic batteries, and anything over 9 volts. The battery drop-off location will move to the Wayne Public Library at 410 Pearl Street, from City Hall. See details on how to recycling batteries right.
March 1 - May 31, 2019 - Pac N Save bag credits donated to Wayne Green Team
Through May 31, Pac N Save will donate its 5-cent reusable bag credit to the Wayne Green Team. Please bring your bags to the store to shop and help raise funds to support our community’s Zero Waste programs.
April 14, 2019, 6:30 pm - Tapped at the Majestic Theater
Join us at the Majestic for a free screening of the powerful documentary Tapped, a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of the bottled water industry -- an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Doors open at 6:30 pm for exhibits, raffles, and discussion, and the 75-minute film begins at 7 pm. Raffle tickets are one for $5 and five for $20 and raise funds for the WSC Green Team. This free event is hosted by the WSC Green Team, the City of Wayne Green Team, and the A. Jewell Schock Museum of Natural History. Bring your own popcorn container and cup to make this a zero waste event.
April 12, 2019, 10:00 am - Zero Waste Chamber Coffee
The Green Team is hosting a Zero Waste Chamber Coffee at the Wayne Public Library. Bring your own mug and see demos on how to reduce waste in Wayne. #RecycleRight
April 1, 2019 - The Wayne Green Team is celebrating 10 years of service in the community
From Green Expos to Green Move Outs, Earth Day movies to Zero Waste Chamber Coffees, since 2009 we have made an impact in reducing waste and increasing sustainable behavior. Over the last 10 years, we have recycled over 100,000 pounds of electronics, 79 tons of glass, 1,000 pounds of string lights, and 526 pounds of batteries. We have hosted: 5 Earth Day movies, 4 Green Expos, 3 Household Hazardous Waste events and 2 Green Move Outs at WSC. And, we have raised $42,000 in grant funds. Our efforts together make a positive difference. Let’s keep going on our journey to Zero Waste in Wayne America!
November 13, 2018 - 12:00 pm - Energy Efficiency 101
The Wayne Green Team, in partnership with Wayne State College, invites you to join us to learn about energy efficiency and how it can apply to our everyday lives. The guest speakers will cover topics such as:
- Energy Efficiency Inspections
- Energy Efficient Appliances
- Financial Incentives for people to upgrade
Come to this special meeting in the back room of Tacos N More, 509 Dearborn Street, at noon on Tuesday, November 13, 2018.
September 15, 2018, 8am-10:30am (or earlier if truck fills up) - Electronics Recycling Event in Wayne Our annual fall electronics recycling event will be held on Saturday, September 15th, enter eastbound on 3rd Street between Lincoln and Pearl, across from the City Hall parking lot, from 8 - 10:30 am, or earlier if the truck fills up. With funds from an NDEQ Waste Reduction & Recycling Incentive Grant, this year we are partnering with DataShield out of Omaha. Help keep harmful substances out of landfills and bring your electronics to be recycled. For more details on acceptable items and fees, click here.
April 22, 2018 - Earth Day Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 on April 22 to focus a national day on the environment. This annual event is now 48 years old and recognized around the world, with the goal to protect and sustain our Earth and its resources. Join us this month at our special events celebrating the Earth and pledge to be green in 2018!
April 22, 2018: 6:30 p.m. - Before the Flood at the Majestic Theatre
Join us on Earth Day at the Majestic Theatre for a free screening of the powerful documentary, Before the Flood, a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet. For more info, visit https://www.beforetheflood.com.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for exhibits, raffles, and discussion, and the 96-minute film begins at 7 pm. Raffle tickets are one for $5 or five for $20 and raise funds for the WSC Green Team.
This free event is hosted by the WSC Green Team, the City of Wayne Green Team, and the A. Jewell Schock Museum of Natural History, with funding from the Nebraska Recycling Council.
Bring your own popcorn container and cup to the movie and make it a zero waste event!
April 20, 2018, 10 am - Zero Waste Chamber Coffee hosted by the Wayne Green Team
This Zero Waste Chamber Coffee will be at the Wayne Public Library, 410 Pearl Street Bring your own mug and see demos on what you can and cannot recycle in Wayne. Number RecycleRight.
April 27, 2018, 2:00-4:00 p.m. - Household Hazardous Waste Event at Wayne Transfer Station
For a $10 drop-off fee, bring your household hazardous waste for proper disposal to the Wayne Transfer Station, 110 S Windom Street HHW items include: lightbulbs, latex & oil-based paints, yard & garden chemicals, oil, cleaning chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, anti-freeze, car batteries, and mercury or mercury-containing devices, including CFLs. Household quantities only. Not Accepted: tires, electronics, appliances, PCBs, picric acid, science lab materials, radioactive materials, or biological hazards. Sponsored by the Northeast Nebraska RC&D, Nebraska Environmental Trust, Wayne Green Team and Gill Hauling.
March 31, 2018 - Wayne Transfer Station Closed for Gill Hauling Training
The Wayne Transfer Station will be closed on Saturday, March 31 and will return to regular hours the following Monday, April 2.