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.
Get curated news on YOUR industry.
Enter your email to receive our newsletters.
Loading...
Latest from Recycling Today
- LME reports active Q2
- Liberty Steel assets facing financing deadlines
- Sims is part of Australian recycling loop
- Tariffs target steel exporters Brazil, Canada and South Korea
- Buy Scrap Software to showcase its software at Scrap Expo in September
- LG details recycling activities
- Algoma EAF is up and running
- Toyota-Tsusho completes acquisition of Radius Recycling
