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Recycling blues

Shrinking hours at the Drop-Off Station

by Eve Silberman

posted 5/18/2011

On a recent Saturday morning at the Drop-Off Station on Ellsworth, a dozen people doing court-ordered community service milled around a car delivering two old computers for recycling. Business is down at the station--so much so that in March, it cut back from five to three days of operation (Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday). The station also laid off one person and

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