NEW YORK RECYCLING
September 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIENEW YORK'S mayor has signed up for a twenty-year contract to recycle the city's residential metal, glass and plastic rubbish two years after his administration abandoned recycling due to budget cutbacks. One component of the plan will be the construction of a US$45 million recycling plant on the Brooklyn waterfront, to be finished by 2007.The change of Mayor Michael Blooomberg's policy is due to skyrocketing landfill costs and a shift in the city's decision to move toward striking money-saving long-term contracts as opposed to their current ...
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