Recycling Pickups in New York City to Go Biweekly.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News,  July, 2003  

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By Dan Janison, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 17--Recycling pickups will be reduced to once every two weeks beginning July 28 under a city law signed yesterday.

At that time, the city also will resume recycling plastic bottles and jugs.

"This isn't perfect," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said before signing the measure, which the City Council approved as part of a budget deal last month. "It would be great if we could afford more fre...uent collections, if we could recycle more things."

Fiscal pressures make it necessary ...

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