Article: City considers self-serve plan for blue bags.

Article: City considers self-serve plan for blue bags
Columbia Daily Tribune;  September 11, 2006 ;     637 words ... ... and clear yard-waste bags to the doorsteps ... arguing that the blue bags are piling up at ... more clear yard-waste bags. Under a tentative ... receive too few yard-waste bags and too many of the blue bags. "They stack up ...

Article: City Keeps a Lid On Its Garbage Recycling Start
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 5, 1995 ;     700 words ... ... has predicted for years that blue bags would produce contaminated recyclables ... participation rates to breakage rates for blue bags and yard waste bags both before and after collection ... collected Monday had one or two blue bags in their refuse bins. In the ...

Article: Chicago to swap blue bags for bins: 7 city wards to ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  October 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... then blue bins ultimately could replace blue bags across Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley ... residents another alternative to using blue bags by setting up 15 recycling drop-off ... percent of households across the city use blue bags, according to a city study. Under blue ...

Article: City to wave white flag on blue bags.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  October 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Daley on Tuesday said he plans to bag blue bags, signaling the death of an initiative ... now the only major U.S. city to use blue bags. Most suburbs ask residents to put recyclables ... administration originally asserted that the blue bags would divert at least 25 percent of the ...

Article: City urged to give away blue bags for recycling
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 23, 1996 ;     534 words ... ... recycling group suggested that the city give away blue bags after the group released a survey Monday showing ... especially worrisome and may show a reluctance to buy blue bags." Volunteers counted blue bags in garbage carts from 477 households in 10 neighborhoods ...

Article: Blue bags good for condos, apartments too.
Walton Sun (Santa Rosa Beach, FL);  June 30, 2007 ;     592 words ... ... dwellers like to recycle too, and those new blue bags will do them just fi ne. Just as homeowners ... services director for Walton County. The blue bags, which allow residents to separate recyclables ... Placing paper, glass, and plastic in the blue bags speeds the work and limits ...

Article: Stores offer free blue bags for city recycling
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 20, 2004 ;     436 words ... ... by making it cheaper and easier to get blue bags that are later separated from regular ... Walgreens" and also begin offering the blue bags at checkout counters, he said. The ... grocery checkout counters. The free blue bags are smaller than the typical 30-gallon ...