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Article: City Needs a Backup If Blue Bags Go Bust
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 12, 1995
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It never hurts to have a contingency plan.
And in the case of the blue-bag recycling program, which is
scheduled to begin in Chicago at the end of the year, a contingency
plan would be helpful if blue bags fall short - as they did in Omaha,
Neb.
Omaha, the only other large city in the country where blue bags
of recyclables are tossed into trucks along with the rest of the
garbage, abandoned its recycling plan last month after four years.
Officials said they ditched the program because only 65 percent of
the residents were participating, and only 6 percent of the city's
garbage was being recycled. Omaha is switching to a recycling
program that uses plastic bins and separate trucks.
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