Mayor Bans Recyclable Trash from Landfills

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley on Thursday told Bureau of Sanitation officials not to put any trash separated for recycling into landfills, after at least one city contractor said some glass may have to be dumped because the market cannot accept all of the glass being generated in the city’s pilot recycling program.

The mayor, in a memo to the Board of Public Works and Bureau of Sanitation officials, said putting material into landfills that was meant to be recycled could “undermine (public) support for the curbside recycling program we have launched for 720,000 households in the city.”