Tucson Will Institute Weekly Recyclables Pickup

Date: March 14, 2002

Source: News Room

The city of Tucson will begin picking up garbage and recyclables once a week, starting this summer, and the entire city will have weekly garbage and recycling collection by December. Until city residents are provided a 90-gallon rollaway recycling bin, they will continue to receive garbage collection twice a week and recycling pickup every other week. After that, residents will have to sort their waste into two bins, one for garbage headed for the landfill, another for items that can be recycled. Vice Mayor Carol West said she hopes the change will boost recycling in Tucson from a rate of 9 percent to 27 percent.

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