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Newark shifts recycling pickup to evenings and launches multilingual outreach
Summary
Director of Public Works announced a citywide change to recycling collection hours (6 p.m.–2 a.m.), multilingual flyers and community meetings to inform residents, and a temporary hold on fines during the education period.
The Newark Department of Public Works will change recycling collection to an evening schedule running from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., Director of DPW Tyreke Golan told the council on Jan. 22. The city said it would publish multilingual flyers, hold community meetings by ward beginning next month and run a Facebook Live with the mayor to explain the new schedule.
Tyreke Golan said the city finalized outreach materials in four languages — English, Spanish, Portuguese and French — and that they would be routed through communications…
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