My new city is very much greener than my old city. There are recycling stations throughout the city, where you can recycle various sorts of items (cardboard, mixed paper, plastic bottles, glass, even food waste); they charge you more if you want a bigger trashcan; there's curbside recycling; and on the city page for trash collection, there are multiple educational videos about composting, reducing your waste, and recycling.
The city aims to "reach 40% waste diversion" by 2027, by these various methods. This will help reduce the landfill growth, but also reduce greenhouse gasses.
That's what you get when your city is progressive. Unlike Fort Smith, where the city-hired company (privatized, of course) was just dumping the recycling in the landfill with the rest of the trash.
The recycling center I took about fifty cardboard packing boxes to yesterday:
The parking lot was full of people hauling in boxes, paper, glass, and plastic to be recycled, so many people I had a hard time parking. Honestly, a pleasure to see.
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