Sunday, March 4, 2012

RECYCLING IN COLONIE OFF TO A GOOD START.(Local)

Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer

A majority of town residents have been complying with the three-day-old mandatory curbside recycling program, according to local garbage haulers.

Beginning Monday, about 25,000 town households had to make sure their garbage contained no recyclables - metals, plastics, newspapers, cardboard or glass. Residents are having their recyclable materials collected by the same private firms that collect their trash.

"I think they're all trying, about 95 percent," said Art Norris, president of Norris Disposal in Loudonville, about his approximately 1,000 Colonie residential accounts. "They're doing all right. The …

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