The Good, the Bad, and the MRF

Single-stream recycling one year later

by James Leonard

posted 8/29/2011

Last July, Ann Arborites switched from sorting recyclables into two plastic totes to using a single ginormous wheeled cart. Since then, the city's overall household recycling rate has risen 21 percent--from 8,857 tons in the twelve months before the change to 10,718 tons in the year just ended.

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