Delaware’s Statewide Recycling Program

Filed in National by on June 26, 2007

Read tommywonk on why the state can and should go “all in” on recycling.

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  1. FSP says:
    June 26, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    You mean the Mandatory Statewide Recycling Program, right?

    Couldn’t help but notice you missed that one tiny word.

  2. donviti says:
    June 26, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    GASP!

    how dare the state make people recycle!

  3. tommywonk says:
    June 26, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    Jason may have missed the word, but I didn’t. My headline at TommyWonk reads, “This Act mandates a statewide recycling program.” Is that clear enough for you?

    Also, it’s useful to note what is and what is not mandated. The participation of your household is not mandated. What is mandated is a statewide system for making household waste recycling convenient and cost effective.

  4. Chris says:
    June 26, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    Yes. Recycling sucks over here. I am AMAZED at what DSWA will not take. I a throwing away stuff that was required by law to be recycled in NJ. So much for DE being a green state. And they call Jersey dirty…

  5. jason330 says:
    June 26, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Also, it’s useful to note what is and what is not mandated. The participation of your household is not mandated. What is mandated is a statewide system for making household waste recycling convenient and cost effective.

    In your face FSP!

  6. G Rex says:
    June 26, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    “The participation of your household is not mandated.”

    What about when the trash haulers won’t pick up your trash if they hear a bottle clink inside? See also: Cherry Island yard waste ban (delayed but not dead) before you cry pish-tosh on that.

    What I really want is for the beer store to return the deposit on the five bottles left in the sixpack after the sixth one shattered on my garage floor! Al Mascitti had a nice long rant about the “bubble tax” a while back and how the distributors mandate full case bottle returns. Anyone heard from Al lately???

  7. tommywonk says:
    June 26, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    I have read the bill over pretty carefully, and have found nothing that requires or even allows trash collectors to not pick up your trash because a bottle, can or newspaper might be inside.

    Wilmington has achieved a diversion rate of more than one-third without any such strong arm tactics.

    The yard waste ban was properly postponed so that the collectors and the DSWA could get their act together. When that happens you will still be able to put your grass clippings on the curb, just as you do now.

    As for the bottle deposit, the bill doesn’t deal with what happens when you break a bottle in your garage.

  8. Nance Willing says:
    June 26, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    Wilmington’s program is mandatory, incentivized with automatic coupon payments and is easy to do with the all-materials-go-in-one bins.
    It is a success.

  9. oedipa maas says:
    June 26, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Wilmington’s program is NOT mandatory (at least yet).

    But Nancy is quite right that it has many levels of incentives, including the ability to get coupons and gift cards and movies tickets and the like based upon how much you recycle.

    The other incentive is that trash collection is now down to once per week — if you want to reduce the amount of stuff around your house, recycling some of it out certainly helps. Not having to separate the stuff out certainly makes it easy to do.

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