Twenty of Ohio's largest
cities now offer curbside recycling in some form to their residents, according
to a study released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Services
included are fee-based curbside pick up; free curbside pick up; and a
combination of pick-up and drop-off recycling.
ODNR's Division of Recycling
& Litter Prevention conducted its first study of recycling in Ohio's 22
largest cities. The study seeks to establish baseline data on the cities'
successes in meeting Ohio's Solid Waste Management Plan goal of a 50 percent
overall recycling rate.
"Urban areas, or areas
of high-density populations, are sources of large volumes of recycling
materials," said Michael Canfield, chief of the Division of Recycling
& Litter Prevention. "It's great to see city managers are focusing
their efforts to provide residents with environmentally sound options in the
disposal of these materials."
The study will also allow
ODNR to assess residential recycling services in the state and the
opportunities to expand those services. About 30 percent of Ohio's 11.2 million
residents, or 3.2 million people, live in the surveyed cities.
The 22 cities surveyed were
Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Columbus, Cuyahoga
Falls, Dayton, Elyria, Euclid, Hamilton, Kettering, Lakewood, Lorain,
Mansfield, Mentor, Middletown, Newark, Parma, Springfield, Toledo and
Youngstown. Parma did not respond to the survey.
The entire text of ODNR's
large city recycling report and an executive summary of the findings are
available on the agency's web site at www.dnr.state.oh.us
.
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