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Recycling Helps California To Counter Landfill Waste
26/Aug/2006: A 16-year campaign to persuade Californians to separate recyclables out of their trash has helped the state reach its goal of reducing landfill waste by 50 percent. As a result, no new landfills have opened in the state in a decade.
California was running out of space for trash, state lawmakers approved legislation in 1989 mandating that communities establish waste-management plans for residents and businesses that would ultimately divert at least 50 percent of all recyclable trash from landfills.
The state was projected to reach the goal in 2000, but preliminary data released Thursday show that the goal wasn't reached until last year.
A total of 88 million tons of solid waste was recycled in 2005 for a 52 percent recycling rate, Myers said. In 2004, 76 million tons, or 48 percent, of waste were recycled.
The recycling effort got off to a slow start, in part because it focused largely on recycling household waste. But officials said efforts improved when businesses agreed - or were required - to recycle.
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