Nevada city starts single-stream program

Houston-based Waste Management Inc. (WM) has begun distributing single-stream recycling bins to residents in Sparks, Nevada. Sparks is a community of about 90,000 people in western Nevada.

According to a report on the website of Reno, Nevada-based KOLO TV8, WM will be delivering more than 28,000 single-stream recycling carts to Sparks residents throughout January 2016.

Among the materials accepted as part of the single-stream program will be:

• paper, including newspapers, magazines, junk mail, cardboard and paperboard;
• aluminum cans;
• plastic bottles and other “empty and clean plastic containers;”
• steel cans; and
• glass bottles and jars.

Informational materials also will be attached to recycling carts as they are delivered to residents, with the intention of helping residents to “determine the acceptable recyclable materials that can be placed in the cart.”

The KOLO TV report also says customers found placing trash in their recycling carts will receive warnings and repeat offenders “will receive contamination fines and could eventually lose the privilege to recycle.”