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Council members, residents press for fixes to recycling program as city introduces $1,000 electronics recycling grant
Summary
Residents and council members warned the city's recycling program is losing material to the trash; council introduced a resolution to accept $1,000 from Lackawanna County for an electronics recycling event while staff search for a new recycling contractor.
Residents and council members on May 13 pressed the city to fix its recycling program after several speakers described high rejection rates and related costs; the council also introduced a $1,000 County grant for an electronics recycling event.
Tom Coyne, a longtime resident, told the council the city’s pickup process has been returning or discarding commingled recyclables and that the city is spending tens of thousands of dollars as a result. "We're just on the cusp of a hundred thousand dollars that we've thrown in the dump," Coyne said, describing duplicate truck runs, fuel and labor costs tied to…
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