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Article: CLATSOP COUNTY RESIDENTS RECYCLE MORE, GENERATE MORE GARBAGE PER CAPITA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 28, 2007
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The Clatsop County government issued the following news release:
Clatsop County residents continue to improve their recycling of garbage, according to the latest waste recovery figures from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
In 2006, Clatsop County residents and businesses recovered 35.9 percent of the solid waste generated within the county, according to the 2006 Oregon Recovery and Waste Generation Rates Report. The
average per capita solid waste recovered in Clatsop County was 1,059 pounds, an improvement of 58 percent since 2001 and 163 percent since 1996. (The annual per capita recovery rate for 2006 was down from 1,240 pounds per capita in 2005, and the total recovery ...