Z N -- Before (above): Before implementation of the City's program, volunteers at Colonial Square collected recyclable materials in their own vehicles once a month. After (left): Stan Forrest shows how easy it to use the new recycling curbcarts at Colonial Square. Curbcarts are generally placed next to the trash dumpsters for added convenience. Highrise recycling (right): At University Towers, Aaron Homes empties containers from each floor into the recycling curbcarts. The curbcarts are then brought to street level for service by Recycle Ann Arbor. Until recently, over half the population in the City of Ann Arbor received no convenient recycling services. Now, thanks to an ambitious, cost-effective apartment recycling program being imple- mented by the City in conjunction with Recycle Ann Arbor, every resident in the city will have weekly recycling service by May, 1992. The heart of this program is a two-curbcart system (newspa- per & containers) serviced by the same recycling trucks that handle the curbside collection routes. Each set of two curbcarts can service up to 25 apartment units. In addition to the curbcarts, each apartment is offered a set of two five-gallon recycling totes for home storage. Apartment with less than five units will continue to use the curbside recycling service used by single family homes. "I think the program is wonderful," says Janis Hagin, recycling committee member for Colonial Square Cooperative, p " People who came up to me initially and said there was no way that they could find the time to recycle are now out there putting their materials in the carts -- the program is that convenient." Ann Arbor Waste Watcher Fall/Winter 1991192 page Y Ann Arbor Waste Watcher Fall/Winter 1991/92 page Y