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Parks staff urges targeted recycling pilots at Bay Beach after contamination review
Summary
City parks staff told the Green Bay Sustainability Commission that most park recycling is contaminated and often landfilled; staff recommended targeted pilots (signage, iconography, clear bags and trials at Shipyard Park) and the commission voted to receive the report and place it on file.
Parks staff reported to the Green Bay Sustainability Commission that recycling bins across city parks are frequently contaminated and that placing more bins citywide, without other changes, is unlikely to increase actual recycling.
The report, presented as a carryover from July, said the parks system currently has roughly "14 or 16" recycling containers at Bay Beach (two inside a dance hall and the rest scattered across the site) and that most containers contain a mix of recyclable and nonrecyclable material. Parks staff said they painted and relabeled old bins and moved several to higher-traffic locations but that these steps produced little change in the proportion of…
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