City of Chicago Boosts Residential Recycling; Nearly 100,000 Tons in 2014
City of Chicago Boosts Residential Recycling; Nearly 100,000 Tons in 2014
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.@kabtweet, Keep Chicago Beautiful and @CocaCola partner to increase residential recycling recovery. Read: http://3bl.me/q24qt3
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 1:15pm
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CONTENT: Blog
The City of Chicago’s successful transition to a residential curbside cart recycling program saves the city $15 million in annual operations and landfill costs. A partnership among Coca-Cola, Keep America Beautiful and Keep Chicago Beautiful helped the City establish city-wide recycling for low-density residences with a donation of 35,000 curbside recycling carts in 2013 and 2014. With 600,000 residential curbside recycling carts in place city-wide, recycling collection has increased 700 percent since 2007 to nearly 100,000 tons in 2014.
Continue reading "Rallying Recycling in the Second City" in Resource Recycling.
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