The city of
“We have three central goals for this partnership,” Steve Thompson, director of recycling initiatives for the ACC, says. “We want to increase participation in curbside recycling throughout the city, we want to see more bins on the street and we want to see residents more diligently recycling the valuable portion of what goes in that bin, including aluminum cans and newspaper. We know the residents of
“We are excited to join the CVP and to now have access to important data about recycling programs across the
In addition to its partnership with
“Since we recently switched to single-stream collections, where residents can recycle all of their items in one bin, we know that we also have to increase our communications to residents. They may still be confused about what to recycle and how to do it,” Paul Dunn, recycling coordinator for the city of
The partnership will involve a city-wide communications campaign to residents with an added focus on a few target communities who have been identified as receptive to recycling, but slower to take part. Additionally, the ACC will provide public relations support and marketing and logistics resources to the city to help disseminate messages and measure their effectiveness.
The national CVP program was developed two years ago by the Aluminum Can Council, a joint effort of the Aluminum Association and the Can Manufacturers Institute, to help reverse declining recycling rates and provide communities with sustainable solutions to improve their programs. The Curbside Value Partnership joins communities, haulers, material recovery facilities and other stakeholders to identify solutions to improving curbside recycling programs and address falling recycling rates.
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Current CVP partner communities include
More information is available at www.RecycleCurbside.org.
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