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Article: Curb your enthusiasm: single-stream collection programs have helped some municipalities expand the material they collect from their residents.(20 LARGEST CURBSIDE PROGRAMS)
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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The fits and starts suffered by municipal residential recyclables collection programs seem to have ebbed. While a few of the largest cities have abandoned their recycling programs, an overwhelming majority of the top cities in the United States has some type of curbside collection program for recyclables.
While the pie-in-the-sky optimism associated with some of the early curbside programs has dissipated, many of the recycling coordinators who now run these programs are more knowledgeable about the components of an effective recycling program.
With this in mind, more municipalities have introduced various versions of the single-stream collection program. ...