The 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.
When Chad Hurley helped found YouTube in 2005, he likely had no idea the video-sharing website would later help his hometown tell the world about its new materials recovery facility.Features from the February 2017 print edition:
- Community Spotlight: Major city grows program by keeping residents and haulers on board
- Cullet comparisons
- Garden State update
- Going the distance
- Is access everything?
- MRF of the Month: Totalrecycle Inc.
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