New Recycling Program Launches Next Week
Delivery of new single-sort receptacles begins at 10 a.m. ceremony.
After months of waiting, Southwest Minneapolis residents are poised to finally get a simpler recycling system. Thursday morning, Mayor RT Rybak and City Councilmember Sandy Colvin Roy will present the first batch of 9,000 new wheeled recycling bins slated for delivery to city residents between Nov. 12 and Dec. 1. A second phase of distribution will bring the blue carts to the rest of the city's 110,000 recycling customers in the spring. The city has produced an interactive map showing when each block will get its blue carts. “By making it easier to recycle, we expect to collect more recycling and less trash from folks who don’t recycle yet or who don’t recycle as much as they could,” Mayor R.T. Rybak said in a written statement issued …
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