The city of El Paso, Texas, has announced that it is suspending its curbside recycling collections and its opt-in recycling programs until further notice starting Dec. 1. An announcement on the city’s Environmental Services webpage states that the suspension is because of impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the city’s workforce. The city plans to continue collecting trash on its regular schedule.
El Paso’s Environmental Services Director Ellen Smyth told El Paso-based KVIA-TV that the department has a driver shortage related to COVID-19. She told KVIA-TV that the city’s staff of 82 solid waste truck drivers has dropped to 60.
The city is recommending residents take recyclable items to one of the city’s five collection sites.
Latest from Recycling Today
- Cards Recycling, Live Oak Environmental merge to form Ecowaste
- Indiana awards $500K in recycling grants
- Atlantic Alumina partners with US government on alumina, gallium production
- GP Recycling president retires
- Novelis Latchford commissions new bag houses
- UK facility focuses on magnet recycling
- Aduro revenue increases while losses widen
- Worldsteel updates its indirect steel data
