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Seattle aims for zero waste.(MUNICIPAL RECYCLING)
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Recycling Today
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November 1, 2007
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The Seattle City Council has approved a zero-waste strategy to increase recycling, reduce waste and upgrade the city's transfer stations.
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The plan is the result of more than 18 months of work led by Council Member Richard Conlin, chair of the Environment, Emergency Management and Utilities (EEMU) Committee, on how to improve recycling, reduce waste and avoid building a third transfer station in the Georgetown neighborhood.
The zero-waste strategy's main components include:
* Plans to increase the recycling of construction and demolition debris;
* The implementation of a new program in 2009 that ...