ST. LOUIS – Mayor Cara Spencer and her streets director say they’re working on a plan to end alley recycling.
According to FOX 2’s news partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Interim Streets Director Jim Suelmann says around half of items placed in recycling dumpsters later end up in the trash.
The City of St. Louis is paying extra to take the wrongly-discarded materials to landfills, causing trash truck drivers more work.
Suelmann is proposing that residents who want to recycle take their items to a drop off site around the city. Spencer says she’s looking into ways the city can increase its number of drop-off sites.