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Community Spotlight: Atlanta’s recycling still improving

Published: July 8, 2025
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The recycling program in Atlanta, Georgia, has continued to improve recycling rates, but still lags behind the national recycling rate. | Luisa P Oswalt/Shutterstock

Editor’s Note: Community Spotlight was a feature that appeared in the monthly Resource Recycling print edition for several years until mid-2020. This week, we are reviving it as a periodic feature in the Resource Recycling e-news. Have an idea for a municipal program that should be featured? Email us at [email protected]. Continue Reading

Community Spotlight: L.A. planners juggle goals, markets and huge volumes of material

Published: July 15, 2019
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Every year municipal crews in Los Angeles collect 1.5 million tons of material.

The second-largest city in the country also has a very ambitious waste diversion goal: 90% by 2025. That means Los Angeles must stay creative to continue managing the massive volume of recyclables its residents generate.

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Community Spotlight: Major city grows program by keeping residents and haulers on board

Published: March 1, 2017
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Community Spotlight, Feb. 2017The 10th largest city in the country has a diverse population that spans 180 square miles, yet it manages to achieve a 72 percent citywide diversion rate. The director of environmental services for San José says the key to achieving such a rate is simplicity.

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Community Spotlight: Recycling ambition in the nation’s capital

Published: April 6, 2017
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Community spotlight March 2017

Washington, D.C.’s recycling collection trucks were recently decorated with recycling-related motifs painted by local artists and students.

Although changes at the White House have grabbed much attention recently, there are plenty of other developments taking place in the District of Columbia.

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Community Spotlight: Asking residents to sort? One city’s done it for decades

Published: May 3, 2017
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Clifton residents separate materials into more than 10 different categories.

As more and more communities switch to single-stream recycling collection to increase participation and material volumes, a New Jersey city is holding on strong to its source-separation system.

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