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City Carton teams with Skyline Center Inc. (Municipal Recycling).


Skyline Center Inc., a nonprofit agency providing services and residential support to disabled people, now offers a state-certified redemption and recycling center to residents of Clinton County, Iowa Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of 2000, the population was 50,149. Its name is in honor of the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton. Its county seat is Clinton.6 Geography
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. The recycling center is a joint effort between Skyline and City Carton Recycling, Davenport, Iowa Davenport is a city in the American state of Iowa that borders the Mississippi River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 98,359. A 2006 estimate tells that the city had grown slightly to 99,514. .

Skyline Director Jack Robinson Jack Robinson may refer to:
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 says, "We though it would be an opportunity to create jobs for people with disabilities." Currently, Skyline serves 140 disabled adults.

Residents receive five cents for each bottle and can brought to the facility. Skyline Center then sells the containers to distributors for six cents each or recycles the cans. Income supports the program and workers' wages.

Skyline Center also accepts recyclable glass, cardboard, newspaper and magazines. These products are picked up by City Carton Recycling, sorted, processed and baled at their Quad Cities
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The Quad Cities are a group of cities which flank the Mississippi River in Iowa and Illinois in the midwestern United States.
 Facility in Davenport and shipped to mills throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  to be made into products. Skyline receives the proceeds from the sale of the recyclable materials. City Carton also donated Skyline a baler to bale all the cardboard collected at the center.

Brian Holtz Brian Holtz is an American software engineer, blogger, webmaster, and was the Libertarian running for the United States Congress on November 7, 2006 against eight-term incumbent Anna Eshoo in Silicon Valley. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science (University of S. , manager of City Carton Recycling Quad City Facility says that when Skyline approached the company about its idea for a redemption and recycling center, City Carton was behind the idea 100 percent.

For more information on Skyline, visit www.skylinecenter.com.
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Title Annotation:nonprofit agency, recycling services for disabled people; Iowa
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U4IA
Date:May 1, 2002
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