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 %.
Buffalo's
curbside recycling rate for 2012 was 12.2 percent; New York City's rate is about 15 percent.
Buffalo's
curbside recycling rate rose last year from 8 to 12.2 percent, short of Mayor Byron Brown's goal of 16 percent.
Not exact matches
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.