RE: [greenyes] Re: New York City recommits to recycling!

[Sharon_Gates@no.address]

The City of Long Beach has provided curbside recycling to all 
single-family homes and multi-family buildings of 10 or fewer units since 
1992.  Over the past year, we have been expanding our program to include 
ALL residential and ALL City-services commercial accounts.  When the 
expansion is completed (est. end of 2004), every City-serviced account 
will have curbside recycling service. 

BTW, the City of LB has its own municipal refuse collection.  Under 
defined circumstances, commercial accounts (which includes some 
multi-family) can opt out of the City service and instead contract with 
permitted private haulers.  That's why the qualifier "City-serviced" is in 
the previous paragraph.

Sharon Gates
Recycling Specialist
City of Long Beach, California
562/570-4694




"Susan Hubbard" <susanh@no.address>
09/14/2004 04:25 PM

 
        To:     "'Heidi Feldman'" <hfeldman@no.address>, "'Reindl, John'" 
<Reindl@no.address>, <greenyes@no.address>
        cc: 
        Subject:        RE: [greenyes]  Re:  New York City recommits to recycling!


Saint Paul provides full curbside to all single family homes and 
multifamily
recycling to all apartments and has for over 18 years. 

Susan Hubbard
CEO
Eureka Recycling
2828 Kennedy St., NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

(651)222-7678
(612)623-3277
www.eurekarecycling.org

Waste is Preventable Not Inevitable

-----Original Message-----
From: Heidi Feldman [mailto:hfeldman@no.address] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:42 PM
To: Reindl, John; greenyes@no.address
Subject: RE: [greenyes] Re: New York City recommits to recycling!

Is that true...NY is the ONLY city to provide full curbside to all
households? I know many cities do...maybe they mean even multi-family?

Heidi Feldman
Public Education Coordinator
Monterey Regional Waste Management District
Tel.: 831/384-5313     FAX: 831/384-3567

-----Original Message-----
From: Reindl, John [mailto:Reindl@no.address] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:22 PM
To: greenyes@no.address
Subject: [greenyes] Re: New York City recommits to recycling!

Thought you all might like to see this view about recycling in New York
City
from the UK:

According to the article "High Diversion -- is it Achievable?", found in
the
July-August 2004 issue of Waste Management World (the journal of the
International Solid Waste Association), "New York is the only US city to
provide a full kerbside recycling service to all its households... It
thus
provides an important benchmark against which to assess the recycling
performance of other large metropolitan conurbations."

John Reindl
Dane County, WI 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon_Gates@no.address [mailto:Sharon_Gates@no.address]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:59 PM
> To: greenyes@no.address
> Subject: Re: [greenyes] Re: New York City recommits to recycling!
> 
> 
> It will be interesting to see how the national media's 
> coverage of NYC's 
> return to recycling compares to their coverage of NYC abandonment of 
> recycling. 
> 
> Sharon Gates
> Recycling Specialist
> City of Long Beach, California
> 562/570-4694
>