New York Restarts Some Recycling Programs

Date: January 9, 2003

Source: News Room

In an effort to resume recycling programs cut last year due to budget constraints, New York City officials have announced that a small New Jersey-based recycling company has agreed to pay the city $5.15 per ton for removing plastic and metal garbage. The program will be less expensive than the recycling programs suspended last year by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and is set to begin in July. City Sanitation Department officials said they hoped to sign a contract in the next two months with the company, Hugo Neu Schnitzer East. The city would save $70 a ton on plastic recycling under the five-year contract, Sanitation officials said, noting that larger bidders wanted the city to pay them for garbage collection.

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