Today's Jan 5 Citizen has an article about Laconia and that Laconia now has single stream recycling with recyclables to be picked up once/two weeks by Waste Management. Trash is picked up once/week. While pay/bag is being considered, there is no additional charge other than property tax at this time.
Listen to this: Waste Management picks up the recyclable materials like paper, plastics and glass for no charge to the City and expects to make money by selling the collected recycled materials. Plus, Laconia residents no longer have to sort their recycled materials into seperate containers for paper-plastics-glass. All the different recycled materials, paper-plastic-glass & other, can be placed into one container of 36-gallons (a standard trash can) or less, provided it is labeled 'recycle.'
So, does Waste Management have a machine somewhere that will sort out a great big trash truck loaded up with numerous different recyclable materials and then deliver them to a recycle center? How does that work?
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