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Kalamazoo ECC highlights EPS foam recycling events, curbside trends and new AI camera pilot for contamination feedback
Summary
Commissioners reviewed EPS (expanded polystyrene) recycling events, single-stream and brush collection statistics for 2024, and discussed a new AI camera pilot on recycling trucks meant as an educational contamination tracker rather than enforcement.
Members of the Environmental Concerns Commission reviewed recent and upcoming recycling events, city curbside recycling statistics and early use of an on-truck AI camera system intended to reduce contamination through education.
The commission noted an EPS (foam) recycling event in December that filled a trailer with foam and accepted electronics; a similar collection is scheduled for Jan. 25 at Mayor’s Park and will add paper shredding. Member reports said organizers filled four carloads of electronics at the December drive…
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