Curbside recycling may be returning

Company to contract with residents, not city
Sunday, July 01, 2007
By Valerie Faciane

Curbside recycling again?

Most local residents haven't seen the service since Hurricane Katrina. And with the city nowhere close to reviving its curbside program, a company that provided residential service in the early 1990s is gearing up to offer it again, primarily in New Orleans.

Officials with Phoenix Recycling have said the company has enough prospective customers in Uptown, Mid-City, Broadmoor and Lakeview, as well as Gentilly and Old Metairie, to start a service in late July or early August.

But it won't be cheap.

Read the story in the New Orleans Times Picayune.

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