The Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota, reports that city commissioners in Mandan, North Dakota, are working toward expanding the city’s curbside recycling program to allow participation from tenants in larger apartment buildings.
The curbside recycling program, which began in January, currently covers single-family homes, duplexes and smaller apartment buildings with individual trash collection.
“It will take a little bit of time,” Mandan Public Works Director Jeff Wright told the paper. He added that main difficulty is the risk of contamination by mixing recyclables with nonrecyclables.
The second difficulty is finding a spot for the 96-gallon containers that would allow truck access, the paper says.
Wright estimated about 15 percent of the 7,600 private home and duplex residents issued recycling carts are not participating in the city’s curbside recycling program.
No timeline has been set for implementation of the expansion, though Wright told the newspaper that it could begin in the next year.
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