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Article: City to wave white flag on blue bags.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2006
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Byline: Dan Mihalopoulos and Gary Washburn
Oct. 25--After defending his faltering recycling program for years, Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday said he plans to bag blue bags, signaling the death of an initiative that most Chicagoans ignored.
A pilot program featuring blue garbage carts for recyclables will "eventually" be expanded citywide, the mayor said.
As a result of the change, Daley said, the city "will save an enormous amount of money" by increasing the amount of recyclable trash that is kept out of landfills.
The blue bag program has been in a slow and tortuous demise, even as City Hall insisted that it was working well and that ...