Sidney in third year of refrigerator recycling program

The City of Sidney, in partnership with its wholesale electric power supplier, the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN), is in its third year of its ENERGYsmart Refrigerator Recycling Program.

The program, partially funded by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Grant Program, will pay residential electric customers $35 to recycle old, inefficient refrigerators and freezers.

Recycling older, inefficient refrigerators accomplishes multiple benefits, including saving up to $125 a year on your electric bill. Other environmental benefits...