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Longview proposes next-day recycling pickup, stricter blue-cart rules to cut contamination
Summary
City staff proposed moving recycling pickup to the day after each household's trash day, expanding accepted plastic types and treating blue-lidded carts set out on trash day as trash. The change aims to reduce contamination at the Kilgore MRF, save on tipping fees, and begin Nov. 3, with public education and cart-sticker outreach planned.
Longview's director of public works on Thursday proposed changing residential recycling collection so recycling crews pick up materials the day after each household's trash day, a move the city says would reduce contamination and save processing costs.
'So what we propose is if your trash day is, let's say, on a Monday, your recycling day would be the next day,' Director of Public Works Dwayne Archer told the City Council. 'So the recycling trucks would run Tuesday through Friday, trash trucks from Monday through Thursday.'
Archer said the change, with a targeted start date of Nov. 3, responds to high contamination rates at the MRF the city uses…
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