Recycling's routines

A little more than a month into curbside program, Medical Lake officials say complaints have dropped

Just over one month into Medical Lake’s new curbside recycling program and the phones at City Hall have quieted down.

Not that they were ringing off the hook prior to the program’s start Aug. 5, but City Administrator Doug Ross acknowledged that City Hall’s front office staff did field a lot of strong complaints prior to start up.

“To us, 10 is a lot,” Ross said.

Most of the complaints were about the size of the blue, single-stream, wheeled-recycling carts, which with a 96-gallon capacity stand about 4 feet tall and a couple feet square at the mouth. Ross said the city’s contractor, Sunshine D...

 

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