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Arcata recycling service expands
John C. Osborn
Issue date: 8/22/07 Section: Community
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On Tuesday, the Arcata Community Recycling Center's Samoa facility opens, bringing weekly curbside recycling to Arcata and Eureka. People living in Arcata's city limits get the service for free if they pay for garbage.
Currently, Arcata residents who want curbside recycling service have to pay. And that service wasn't as convenient as driving to the recycling center.
"It's been a fairly anemic program to date," said Mark Loughmiller, executive director of the Arcata Community Recycling Center. "We're trying to work with the [Arcata Garbage Company] to pump it up."
The new service allows all Arcata residents to recycle everything from paper, tin cans, glass and plastic bottles if they pay for garbage service.
Curbside collection will reduce greenhouse gas generation produced by cars hauling recyclables to the center, Loughmiller said. "It's a much more environmentally benign system."
The service will be available only to single-family households at first.
After the kinks are worked out, service will expand to multi-family households, like apartment complexes, Loughmiller said. "I would guess within the next six or nine months."
The recycling center will pay for the new service provided to Arcata residents - a cost of around $12,000 a month. Eureka Garbage Company will offer the same service at a cost.
Currently, Arcata residents who want curbside recycling service have to pay. And that service wasn't as convenient as driving to the recycling center.
"It's been a fairly anemic program to date," said Mark Loughmiller, executive director of the Arcata Community Recycling Center. "We're trying to work with the [Arcata Garbage Company] to pump it up."
The new service allows all Arcata residents to recycle everything from paper, tin cans, glass and plastic bottles if they pay for garbage service.
Curbside collection will reduce greenhouse gas generation produced by cars hauling recyclables to the center, Loughmiller said. "It's a much more environmentally benign system."
The service will be available only to single-family households at first.
After the kinks are worked out, service will expand to multi-family households, like apartment complexes, Loughmiller said. "I would guess within the next six or nine months."
The recycling center will pay for the new service provided to Arcata residents - a cost of around $12,000 a month. Eureka Garbage Company will offer the same service at a cost.
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