The Northwest Arkansas Council and NWA Recycles hosted a summit on "Re-Thinking Trash" last week. The event included a pitch competition where new business owners presented an idea or model for reducing waste in order to win $5,000 in prize money.
NWA Council Taps Entrepreneurs to 'Re-Think' Trash
![Northwest Arkansas diverted nearly 45,000 tons of waste from landfills in 2022, according to estimates from NWA Recycles.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0ba899c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2560x1707+0+0/resize/880x587!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F7a%2Ffd2e0cc540f2824e52761bc511b4%2Frecycle-2.jpg)
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