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COPYRIGHT 2004 Daily News
Jan. 27--More than a decade after requiring trash recycling in single-family neighborhoods, Los Angeles city officials are ready to launch a $6 million, two-year pilot recycling program for apartment dwellers.
But critics say officials should just make it mandatory now.
By late February, the city will start experimenting with ways of collecting recyclables and encouraging participation at more than 100,000 of the city's 650,000 multifamily units.
In two years, they hope to have the best plan and institute it citywide.
"We want to reduce our dependency on landfilling, and the only way to do that is to reduce what we dispose," said Enrique Zaldivar, assistant director with the Bureau of Sanitation. "It's still in the pilot phase,...
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