IRVINE : Apartments, Condos Join Recycle Project
The City Council approved an expansion of its curbside recycling program Tuesday to include condominium and apartment dwellers.
The plan, which passed on a 4-0 vote, extends the program that until now had applied only to single-family homes.
The city will provide multifamily units with dumpsters that have compartments to separate newspapers, bottles, cans and plastics from one another. A special type of trash truck will be used to cart the recyclables away.
Cindy Asher, a management analyst for the city, said planners had always intended for the program to include all the city’s residents. The first part of the program was enacted in 1987.
So far, bins at 26,000 single-family homes have collected 15,206 tons of recyclable materials. City planners have no estimates yet on how much material could be collected from the 13,000 residential units about to be added.
Asher estimates that 70% of those eligible to participate will take part in the program.
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