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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Blue Cart Recycling Program celebrates its first year anniversary of making Chicago a "greener" place to live. To date, the City of Chicago has collected approximately 80,000 tons of recyclables.

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City of Chicago Celebrates First Year Anniversary of Recycling Program

This week marks the one year anniversary of Chicago's citywide rollout of the Blue Cart Recycling Program, which provides bi-weekly recycling services to single family homes and multi-unit buildings with four or fewer units according to the Department of Streets & Sanitation (DSS). Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, expanded the program to over 360,000 Chicago households over an eight month span in 2013.