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Michigan City panel presses for stronger recycling at festivals and city events
Summary
Commissioners urged more aggressive recycling at summer events, discussed providing toters or small recycling dumpsters, staffing bins, and coordinating pickups with the waste district to reduce landfill tipping fees and increase diversion.
At the Feb. 12 meeting the Michigan City Sustainability Commission focused substantial discussion on improving recycling at city-sponsored events after members said last summer’s events had little visible recycling.
Commissioner Abigail Neary and others said informal observation showed low recycling rates and urged practical steps: stationing people by waste containers to guide…
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