The city had said by 1989 it would have a 2,600-tons-a-day recycling effort.

At the same time, we introduced an ambitious and comprehensive recycling effort.

With a $650,000 state grant, the county is conducting a comprehensive solid-waste-management study to measure the impact of local recycling efforts and alternatives.

Environmentalists shifted their focus to pressing industry to go beyond symbolic recycling efforts to serious capital investments.

Mr. Dimnet shakes things up just enough to keep the menu from feeling like a total recycling effort.

The city's program got under way on April 3, eight months after Hartwick began its recycling effort.

The whole recycling effort has been difficult for that.

But the bottom line, he said, is that regardless of how successful recycling efforts become, some trash will always be left over.

He said the amended law would "provide relief for that industry and encourage local commercial recycling efforts."

However, we are opposed to the practice of garbage importation because it completely destroys any successful recycling efforts.