Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, along with city council members, have unveiled its Green Cincinnati Recycling Plan. The program, launched earlier this month, has a goal of increasing recycling in the city by 50 percent over the next four years.
The program includes the addition of four recycling drop-off locations in downtown Cincinnati, a new web page where citizens can sign up for recycling online, and a recycling program aimed at tailgating before the Cincinnati Bengals home games.
Cincinnati now recycles about 9 percent of its total waste. By upping recycling to 15 percent, Cincinnati would increase the rebate it receives from the Hamilton County Solid Waste District, which would reduce the cost of the city's recycling program. The city now gets a $26 rebate for each ton of recycling. The rebate increases to $30 per ton if the city recycles to 10 percent of its trash, and to $34 per ton by recycling 15 percent.
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