Detroit’s curbside recycling program begins in July

Detroit’s curbside recycling pilot program to kick off in July.Excerpt:“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.Read the entire article here.