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Infrastructure

Goal 2: Support and Expand Programs to Reduce Environmental Impacts
Objective 1: Mitigate Operating Costs and Impact on Environment
Project Performance Measure(s) City Service Team (Department)
Core Recycling Recycling Collected Curbside (Tons) Shared Services (AM)
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2.1.4
Summary:

The City of Arlington continues to provide Arlington Residential Recycled Tons Collected
residents the opportunity to recycling in their homes. 2,500
Previously, residents were provided with a 22‐gallon
recycling bin to place curbside once each week by 2,000
manual collection practices. In June 2013, the City
switched to automated recycling collection and 1,500
residents were provided with 65‐gallon wheeled carts.
1,000
Staff currently serves on the Resource Conservation
Council which is working with the North Texas Council 500
of Governments on a Regional Recycling campaign.
This two‐year endeavor will help bring a unified
0
recycling message to the region and focus on
education and lessening contamination rates. Staff Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept.
also recently attending a Governing Magazine

roundtable regarding challenges and solutions within
the recycling industry. Additionally, staff continues to Library Drop‐off Locations
work with the Citizens Environmental Committee as
part of public outreach and education. 20

Update: 15
th
Throughout the 4 quarter, staff continued to work
with the North Central Texas Council of Governments
on the regional recycling campaign. The campaign 10
includes all partner cities in the region and is focused
on reducing contamination of curbside recycling 5
through a marketing campaign including billboards,
radio and television ads, newspaper ads, social media
marketing toolkits and print materials. Staff continues 0
to work with the Office of Communications to market
the campaign. In response to the region’s unified
recycling message, staff has worked with Republic
Services to update recycling cart lids with standardized conjunction with the Water and IT departments and roll out is
recycling categories in English and Spanish. anticipated to begin January 2020.

During this quarter, staff participated in several events In the summer of 2019, Governing Magazine published a
including recycling presentations at Animal Services, handbook for communities facing challenges with recycling based
the Senior Eunice Activity Center and Wood on this a roundtable that staff participated in in January 2019
Elementary. Staff also presented recycling education In August, an On the Clock episode highlighting Recycling in
at the annual Home Ownership Fair.
Arlington was released. To date the episode has received over
Staff has begun working on designing and 50,000 views on YouTube.
implementing an electronic landfill coupon
redemption process for Arlington residents. The test
environment is currently being developed in

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