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Lexington implements new recycling system. (Municipal Recycling).


Kentucky's Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government's Division of Solid Waste has begun converting to a single-stream-plus-glass recycling system with the distribution of new bins.

The new 65-gallon Rosie bins are slightly taller and wider than the 40-gallon bins they are replacing. The new system promises to make recycling participation easier by allowing residents to commingle commingle

to mingle together, e.g. cattle mingling with deer.
 plastics, paper and aluminum cans. The system also enables residents to add corrugated cor·ru·gate  
v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates

v.tr.
To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves.

v.intr.
 boxes and chipboard chip·board  
n.
A pasteboard made from discarded paper.


chipboard
Noun

thin rigid board made of compressed wood particles

Noun 1.
.

Glass will be the only commodity collected separately. The glass collection bin will rest on the rear portion of the inside rim of the cart.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the Division of Solid Waste, the primary goal in implementing the new system is to increase the volume of recyclables collected and to encourage the 30,000 eligible households who currently do not have a Rosie bin to order one and to participate in the new system.
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Title Annotation:Kentucky
Comment:Lexington implements new recycling system. (Municipal Recycling).(Kentucky)
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U6KY
Date:Nov 1, 2002
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