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Philadelphia, name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaşehir, it was founded in the 2d cent. B.C.
 residents who are caught recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment.  by street teams from local radio stations will be rewarded for their efforts as part of an incentive program to increase residential recycling participation.

To be eligible for awards, Philly residents' must sport a "Recycling Pays" decal on their recycling bins or buckets. If a member of the WDAS WDAS Waste Drum Assay System  or Power 99 FM Street Teams spots the decal on a resident's full recycling bin on recycling day, the resident could win concert tickets, movie passes, CDs, t-shirts or even a Caribbean vacation.

The incentive program is part of an integrated community outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public.  and advertising program that includes recycling rallies and a regional school recycling competition.
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Title Annotation:BACK PAGE; residential recycling participation
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U2PA
Date:Jun 1, 2005
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