Sentences with phrase «curbside recycling rate»

Buffalo's curbside recycling rate rose last year from 8 to 12.2 percent, short of Mayor Byron Brown's goal of 16 percent.

Buffalo's curbside recycling rate for 2012 was 12.2 percent; New York City's rate is about 15 percent.

Westchester County's top five municipalities with the highest curbside recycling rates out of total solid waste generated in 2015 are: City of Rye: 30 %, New Castle: 29 %, North Castle: 29 %, Hastings: 28 %, Scarsdale: 28 %.

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 14, 2014 — A stronger network of recycling depots and curbside collection programs will yield increased rates of recycling and material recovery of beverage containers, according to the major findings of a new study commissioned in part by the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI).

(And, given the number of bottles and cans that end up in landfills despite the prevalence of curbside recycling programs, it seems likely that any barrier to recycling will make for relatively low reclamation rates; in 2004 the Association of Lighting and Mercury Recyclers estimated a residential mercury bulb recycling rate of 2 percent.)

Curbside programs continue to increase their carton recycling rate throughout the U.S., and there are drop - off and mail - in options available as well.