Washington City To Expand Recycling Program The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Tacoma Solid Waste Man- agement department in Tacoma, Washington, to help the city expand its multifamily recycling program.The grant will be used to provide improved recycling education, language access and outreach services to multifamily properties. Tacoma was one of 11 cities awarded one of its Leader- ship Grants following its Leadership Summit: 50 Cities Driv- ing the Circular Economy. The Recycling Partnership said the summit brought together solid waste leaders and de- cision-makers from 50 of the largest cities geographically dispersed throughout the continental United States for the two-day summit.The event focused on ways to change recy- cling systems across the country. Tacoma’s project will use focus groups to determine op- portunities for improved engagement with property manag- ers, residents and operations teams to increase communica- tion across all aspects of the program. Staff will also conduct five focus groups in Spanish, Korean, Khmer, Russian and Vietnamese to determine opportunities for improved mul- tilingual outreach and to help develop materials in multiple languages.With the information provided by focus groups, the city will adapt and expand a multifamily recycling tool- kit for a multilingual audience. According toThe Recycling Partnership, other cities to re- ceive Leadership Grants were Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; Houston, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; San Diego. California; Tuc- son,Arizona; andWashington, DC. Recology Ordered To Repay $100M To Customers San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced March 4 that Recology San Francisco, the contractor for the city’s waste and recycling collection, will lower rates and reimburse ratepayers close to $100 million for overcharges that were unearthed as part of a wide-ranging investigation into public corruption tied to former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru and others.The investiga- tion is part of an overarching public integrity review with San Francisco City Controller Ben Rosenfield. The total savings to ratepayers from the agreement is more than $100 million and covers a four-year rate period from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2021. Recology will reimburse ratepayers $94.5 million in over- charges and interest as part of a negotiated settlement with the City Attorney’s Office. Under the settlement, Recology will also lower residential and commercial refuse rates start- ing on April 1, 2021, which will save ratepayers $6.1 million from April 2021 through June 2021. Together, this is more than $100 million in direct benefits to San Francisco refuse ratepayers. In addition, Recology will make a $7 million settlement payment to the city under the California Unfair Competition Law and the San Francisco Campaign and Gov- ernmental Conduct Code.
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