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"It's good; doesn't mean we stop there," says Tim Croll, solid-waste director for Seattle Public Utilities.
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At the end of their short use cycle, plastic bags or bottles have little intrinsic value; the large majority end up in solid-waste landfills or as litter in creeks and rivers.
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Stephen Haney, a manager at the city's solid-waste management department, said that his crews collect 100 tons just from the two main parades, the second of which takes place Saturday.
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The city's director of solid-waste services, Bob Gedert, says Austin hopes to ratchet up its diversion rate to 75% by 2020 through a mix of regulation and outreach, but says the city does not expect to reach zero waste until 2040.
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Jinko added that it has adopted several measures, including building more solid-waste storage, to restore the brook to its precontaminated state as early as possible.
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Our solid-waste employees will join the rest of the DPW family to pay their respects to Mr. Hutchins and his family on Thursday.
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Council Speaker Christine Quinn said she was pleased that the mayor's potential "backing off" from the 2006 citywide solid-waste management plan "is no longer going to happen."
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Because of budget constraints, the mayor had proposed delaying the construction of three proposed solid-waste marine-transfer stations in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn.
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Meanwhile, it is keeping up the acquisitions, jumping into solid-waste disposal.
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Some in the municipal solid-waste business don't believe that recycling and composting can reduce a city's waste down to nearly nothing.
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