[GreenYes] Re: Beyond newspapers

[Pete Pasterz <PAPasterz@no.address>]

Again, I believe Arthur's question was for curbside collection of other
paper beyond newspaper, not simply the date of organized
collection....am I interpreting your question correctly, Arthur?
 
The nonprofit I founded in the Lansing, MI area started collection of a
residential mix at curbside in East Lansing, MI in 1988.
 
Pete Pasterz

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Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:04 PM
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Subject: [GreenYes] Re: Beyond newspapers
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There are threads on the original recycling programs from back maybe a
year or two ago. Clinton NJ and Berkeley CA (and many satellite programs
sprang up around these two centers very quickly) seem to claim the first
modern recycling programs in the late 60s where they did curbside
pickups of a sort. There were numerous paper drives, though, that I've
written about before in a number of large urban centers during the
second world war and, of course, mobile rag collectors and other junk
collectors go all the way back to our earliest colonial days. Certainly
SF in 1988 is not close to correct. Philly is credited as being the
first major city in the country to have comprehensive municipal curbside
(with a city ordinance making recycling mandatory, that is) and that
program began in 1987 (and there were pilots and planning beginning in
1985). 

Drop-offs, of course, have been around forever. 

All this is to say, organized recycling has been around forever and is
as American as mom and apple pie. Hoorah!

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on 9/15/06 11:44 AM, M.Simons at msimons@no.address wrote:



	
	On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, arthur boone wrote:
	> I believe the first large jurisdiction to take other papers in
a 
	> curbside program than newspaper was San Francisco about 1988;
is that 
	> correct? Arthur R. Boone
	
	I would assume David Biddle could provide more information on
this, but in 
	1987 Philadelphia passed Bill 1251A - a mandatory Recycling
Ordinance. 
	As far as I know, this was the first mandatory recycling law in
any major 
	city in the US.  I can't speak for other countries at this time
without 
	further research.
	
	I'm not sure when the program actually first started curbside,
but at the 
	time we collected mixed paper, metal, glass, and plastics.
	
	I'm told at the time we also served as an example to
jurisdictions and 
	cities all over.
	







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