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What New York City informs us about whom recyclers should consider to provide service

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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in the New York City believes that the saving of recycling lie in long-term contracts with recycling companies rather than short-term contracts with lest efficient waste removal companies. The commitment by real recycling companies, and the hostility by garbage firms with recycling units show that some of the people in the national garbage companies' recycling divisions and subsidiaries are informed as well as personally committed to recycling.

Contracts & orders received, Refuse systems, New York, Contracts & orders let, Contracts, Refuse and refuse disposal, Contract agreement, Recycling industry

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Redesigning for recycling

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The significance of plastic recycling has increased recently. Municipalities have decided to include plastic bottles in curbside collection programs. Local officials are discovering that because of low weight to volume ratio, high density polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate are much costlier to gather and process than other materials.

Plastics, Polyethylene terephthalate

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Is composting getting a fair shake in EPA landfill bioreactor analyses?

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must look at the environmental effects of landfill bioreactor technology before approving the new technology, according to the National Recycling Coalition (NRC). The NRC believes the EPA should instead look at source separated composting.

Economic policy, Environmental aspects, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Compost, Refuse disposal facilities, Waste disposal facilities, Sanitary landfills, Bioreactors, National Recycling Coalition

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