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Article: !Viva reciclaje! Mexico City is moving toward a residential recycling culture through education and privatization.
- Article from:
- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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For American urbanites, municipal recycling efforts, complete with colored trash bins and mandatory separation of materials, have become run of the mill.
Not so in Mexico City, where residents have to listen for the bell of a garbage truck before they dash down flights of stairs, out the door and down to the street corner where an aging truck and its crew await.
With trash collection at this early stage, formalized recycling to reduce the country's approximately 90,000 tons of waste produced per day--12,000 tons of which come from Mexico City alone--seems a far-off dream.
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