Tuesdays at APA: Recycling in Chicago: Past, Present, and Future

Recycling in Chicago: Past, Present, and Future
May 17, 2011


As Chicago begins a new political era, much attention has been
paid to the problems in Chicago's recycling program. Carl Zimring
from Roosevelt University analyzed the public and private systems
used to recycle post-consumer materials in Chicago over the past
century, with discussion of how the current system evolved,
problems with it, and ways in which future versions of recycling
in Chicago might work based on historical precedents and programs
in other cities.