San Jose Achieves Ambitious Recycling Goal
20 November 2001 - 10:00am
San Jose has become California's only large city to achieve a tough 10-year recycling goal of diverting half its trash from landfills.
Preliminary figures showed that slightly more than half of what San Joseans got rid of - newspapers, cans, glass, motor oil and other items - was recycled last year rather than ending up in a local dump. If the California Integrated Waste Management Board (http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov) verifies the figures, San Jose would be the first California city with 500,000 or more people to reach the goal mandated by 1989legislation. The deadline was last year.
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San Jose Mercury News, November 1, 2001
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