In 2005, the City of Oakland, California, asked
Waste Management to help move the city toward its goal of 75-percent
waste reduction by the year 2010. WM took on the challenge and helped
launch the largest new recycling program in the county’s history.
In a matter of weeks, WM implemented an enhanced
single-stream recycling program and delivered 60,000 recycling carts
and 100,000 kitchen pails for food scrap recycling throughout the
city. The program allows the city’s 400,000 residents to combine
food scraps, soiled papers and yard trimmings all in one cart for
weekly pickup and conversion into compost.
