According to the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is looking to privatize its long-struggling residential recycling program.
Under fire to deliver suburban-style curbside recycling to 359,000 Chicago households without it, the Daley administration has decided to privatize the service by signing a 10-year contract with Waste Management, a union leader has been told.
Lou Phillips, business manager of Laborers Local 1001, said the city would be divided into six zones, with four of them awarded to the waste-hauling giant. Click here to access the article -- Chicago privatizing its curbside reycling program.
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