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Chapter 5: Waste Reduction & Recycling

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These measures aim to eliminate solid waste at its source, i.e., the point of production, and to maximize reuse and recycling throughout the community:

  • Increase residential recycling, composting, and source reduction ·
  • Increase recycling, composting and waste reduction in the commercial sector
  • Increase recycling of construction & demolition debris
  • Expand local capacity to process recycled materials · Expand efforts to eliminate waste at its source
  • Revise the City solid waste disposal rate structure in order to maintain incentives, outreach programs and other activities designed to increase waste diversion · Increase recycling, composting, and waste reduction in public institutions
  • Enhance and expand outreach, marketing, and education regarding waste reduction and recycling

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Recycling & Composting

Post #50 by kervin krause on October 30, 2008 6:01PM

First of all Berkeley & the Bay area is way ahead of most of the country in sustainable actions. But...

1. The blue recycling containers are impractical. The wind often blows paper out of the containers, I often pick up loose paper and put it back in the bins around town. They need to have the standard containers with lids.

2. The city needs to have better public recycling containers around town and in parks. None have paper recycling and many of the glass & metal containers are broken.

3. The large green composting containers get real stinky and the food scraps get stuck on the bottom, although I usually put landscaping in first and the food scraps on top to minimize this problem.

Anyways keep up the good work! Thank you!