Detroit's curbside recycling pilot program to kick off in July.
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“We partnered with a number of these groups to have them at the table
and be part of the planning process,” says Al Jordan, director of
Detroit’s Department of Public Works, which will oversee the curbside
recycling program.
What they’ve conceived is a one-year pilot program which will operate
in two Detroit neighborhoods, one on the west side and one on the east
side, serving 15,000 homes in each. Eastside residents will receive an
18-gallon receptacle, collected manually every week. Westside residents
will have a 96-gallon container which will be emptied by city trucks
every other week.
All recycled materials will be dumped at a transfer facility and then
taken to Great Lakes Recycling in Roseville. Jordan says it’s too early
and the program is too small to start looking at recycling as a source
of revenue. But the long-term plan includes the receipt of a fair
market price for our discarded paper, glass, metal and other materials.
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