Houston, TX Continues Single-Stream Recycling Expansion
The City of Houston, TX announced in December that an additional 30,000 households received 96 gallon single-stream recycling carts with the rewards-for-recycling program RecycleBank. In the ongoing expansion, this brings the total to nearly 105,000 households in the program. The City first launched the single-stream pilot in April 2009 to 10,000 homes, and in November 2009, RecycleBank came on board and the City added 10,000 additional households.
Residents that are part of the single-stream recycling collection program can also now recycle their glass bottles and jars. Glass recycling is not available to households in the dual-stream collection program. All residents, however, can recycle glass at citywide drop-off collection sites. Glass collected for recycling goes to Strategic Materials, Inc..
The City does not own or operate its own materials processing facility, and since starting single-stream recycling collection the original contractor for this service, Abitibi, which was taking the material to its single stream materials processing facility in Arlington, TX, was bought by Waste Management. Now that Waste Management has the contract, they are having to retrofit one of their facilities to accept single-stream collected recyclables. More
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