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Since Implementing Single-Stream Recycling, Ann Arbor’s Landfill Diversion Rate Has Plummeted

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 11, 2025

In 2009, half of materials collected by Recycle Ann Arbor from Ann Arbor residents were diverted from the landfill. Between 2019 and 2024, two-thirds of the materials collected within Ann Arbor by Recycle Ann Arbor went to the landfill. …

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Ann Arbor’s Single-Stream “Wishcycling” Problem is an $80M Environmental Disaster

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jan 18, 2022

by Jessica Helges and Kate O'Neill BETWEEN 2010 AND 2012, Berkeley, California, Walpole, Massachusetts, Auburn, Maine, and Concord, New Hampshire, among other U.S. cities voted not to adopt single-stream recycling, or abandoned…