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 # Flint Water Crisis Creates New Opportunity for Republic's Struggling Recycling Program

 

##### By Arlene Karidis

 

 

 Feb 1, 2016 1:00 PM ET

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[Originally published on WasteDive](http://www.wastedive.com/news/flint-water-crisis-creates-new-opportunity-for-republics-struggling-recycl/412991/)

Flint, MI residents have turned to bottled water in the face of its water crisis, even for cooking and bathing. So far, the state alone has handed out more than 176,000 cases of bottled water and as the bottles pile up, residents are beginning to recycle — a change for the city, which Republic Services is happy to see.

  
[Continue reading on WasteDive](http://www.wastedive.com/news/flint-water-crisis-creates-new-opportunity-for-republics-struggling-recycl/412991/).



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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