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Article: Waste Management Building New 'Single Stream' Recycling Plant in Seattle Area.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- December 2, 2002
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By J. Patrick Coolican, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 2--Sometime after July 1, residents of 320,000 homes throughout the Puget Sound region will no longer have to worry about copious wine bottles in recycling crates raising the eyebrows of neighbors and workers who collect them.
An 80,000-square-foot recycling plant under construction near Highway 522 and Northeast 190th Street in Woodinville will allow customers to toss all their recyclables into one container, which will then be separated and bundled at the plant. New technology eliminates the need to put glass in separate crates, as is done now.
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