City cracking down on recycling rules

City cracking down on recycling rules

{***6 OPEN SHORT***{***2-SHOT***GOOD EVENING I’M PAT SIMON.AND I’’M KATIA URIARTE...USEIT RIGHT, OR LOSE .ITTHE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ISLAYING DOWN THE LAW FOR SITRECYCLING PROGRAM.TODAY THEY VOTED ON ANORDINANCE THAT COULD TAKAWE AYRECYCLING PRIVILEGES FMRORESIDENTS WHO DON’T FOLLOW THERECYCLING RULES.GREG CHANDLER HAS THE DETAILS.{***PKG**}{***SOT FULL**}REPOERRT INTRO: The cityesopits new compliance proamgrconvinces residents to put theirrecyclables in the recycling andtheir trash in the tra.shA RECENT AUDIT FOUND THATROUGHLY 40 PERCENT OWHF AT’SCOLLECTED FROM THESE BLUEBINS... ISN’T WHAT THE CITYCONSIDERS RECYCLABLE.THAT INCLUDES THINGS LIKEPLASTIC TOYS... CLOTHES.GLASS... AND STYROFOAM.THE CITY ESTIMATES MOSTRECYCLING CARTS ACTUALLY HAVE50-75 PERCENT TRASH INSIDE.{***SOT FULL**}KRISTY RAMIREZ/CORPUS CHRISTI: Iwant us to recycle, I wish ourrecycling center was bet Iteused to live in Connecticut, youcould recycle glass, you couldrecycle wine bottles, you couldrecycle all different kinds ofplastics.KRISTY RAMIREZ RECYCLES... ANDIS CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT SHE PUTSIN THELU BE BIN.THE CITY WISHES MORE RESIDENTSWERE LIKE HER.THAT’S WHY THE CITY IS LAUNCHINGITS RECYCLE CLEAN PROGRAM.UNDER THAT PROGRAM...THE FIRST TWO TIMES A RECYCLINGCART IS FOUND WITH GARBAGE...RESIDENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED.THEY CAN THEN EITHER REMOVE THEGARBAGE... AND HAVE THERECYCLING COLLECTED TWO WEEKSLATER... OR SOONER FOR A 25DOLLAR FEE.A THIRD TIME BRINGS A 25 DOLLARFINE.THE 4TH... REMOVAL OF THE BIN.{***SOFULLT **}RAMIREZ: it’s something they cantry, I don’r know how effectiveit’s going to be.{***SOT FULL**}CIARA LUNA/CORPUS CHRISTI: I dothink it’s a great idea to getthat going and enforcing itbecause if we don’t do somethingabout it now, it’ll never getdone.CIARA LUNA SAYS SHE CONVINCEDHER PARENTS TO START RECYCLING.SHE’S WORRIED THOUGH... THATFINES COULD MEAN MORE PEOPLE...SKIP RECYCLING... AND THROWEVERYTHING IN THE TRH.AS{***SOT FULL**}LUNA: A lot of people tend to belazy about itand they don’tcare.{***SOT FULL**}REPORTER OUT: After passingtoday’s first reading.

Theordinance has to pass a secondbefore it takes effect.

We l’let you know when it doeReporting in Corpus Christi,Greg Chandler, KRIS 6 News.{***WEB ANIMATION**}CITY LEADERS TELL USSEPARATING THE ACTUAL TRASH FROMRECYCLABLES COSTS YOU ... THETAXPAYER ... ROUGHY 500-THOUNDSADOLLARS A YEAR.

THEY’RE HOPINGTHIS NEW PROGRAM WILL REDUCETHAT CT.OSWE HAVE DETAILS ON HOW YOU CANDO YOUR PART.

JUST FIND GREG’SSTORY... ON KRIS T-V DOT COM.SO WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMONRECYLABLES?THESE ARE THE TOP URFOACCORDING TO E-P-A.{***MOST COMMON STILL 1**}AT THE TOP IS PAPER.ITAK MES UP 23 PERCENT OFMUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE GENERATEDEACH YR.EATHAT’S MORE THAN ANY OTHERMATERIAL{***MOST COMMON STILL 2***LEAD ACID BATTERIES, THE KINDYOU FIND IN YOUR VEHICLE, AREALSO A BIG RECYCLABLE.ACCORDING TO THE E-P-A,2-POINT-9 MILLIOBAN TTERIES WERERECYCLED IN 2018.{***MO CSTOMMON STILL 3**}AMERICANS USE A LOT OF PLASTICPRODUCTS SO IT’S NO SURPRISEPLASTICS ARE IN THE TOP FOURLIST.MORE THAN 35 MILLION TONS OFPLASTICS WASTE WAS GENERATED INTHE U-S IN 2018.THAT REPRESENTS 12 PERCENT OFALL WASTE MATERIALS.NOT ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS ARERECYCLABLE SO CHECK BEFORE YOUTOSS IT IN THE RECYLING BIN.{***MOST COMMON STILL 4**}GLASS CLOSES OUT THE TOP FOURLIST.IN AN AVERAGE YEAR, THE SU-PRODUCES MORE THAN 12 MILLIIONTONS OF GLASS WASTE.ACCORDING TTOHE E-P-A, ONLY 25PERCENT OF GLASS WASTE ISRECYCL.ED{***WX PLASMA***THERE ARE MANY BENEFS ITTORECYCLG.INIT REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF WTEASIN OUR LANDFILLS, CONSERVESNATURAL RESOURCES AND CUTS BACKON POLLUTION.BUT CYRECLING ISN’T JUSTMOTIVATED BY ENVIRONMEALNTCONCERNS.THERE ARE ECONOMIC BENEFITS ASWE.LLRECYCLING HELPS CREATEJOBS....A *LOT OF JOBS.{***RECYCLING JOBS STILL 1**}BACK IN 2016, THEENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYDID A UDSTY ON THE ECONOMICBENEFITS OF RECYCLING.THE E-P-A LOOKED AT THENUMBER OF JOBS, WAGES AND TAXREVENUES ATTRIBUTETODRECYCLING.HERE’S WHAT THEY FOUND.{***RECYCLING JOBS STILL 2**}IN A SINGLE YEAR, RECYCLINGACCOUNTED FOR 681-THOUSAND JSOBIN THE U-S...IT GENERATED NEARLY38-BILLION DOLLARS IN WAGES...AND FIVE POINT FIVE BILLIONDOLLARS IN TAX REVENUES.{***WX PLASMA***{***WX PLASMA**}HERE’S ANOTHER WAY TO LOOATKTHESE STATS....EVERY 1-THOUSDANTONS OF MATERIALS THAT ARERECYCLED EQUALSONE-POINT-SEVENTEEN JOBS