"Recyclable wastes from business clogging landfill" The Columbus Dispatch

Link: Recyclable wastes from business clogging landfill
Robert Vitale
The Columbus Dispatch
March 9, 2008

...Businesses account for 60 percent -- more than a half-million tons per year -- of the trash dumped locally.

Few of us are recycling at home. But few businesses are even giving workers the chance at offices, shops, restaurants, warehouses and factories.

"A lot of them don't get it -- or they're just starting to get it," said John Remy, spokesman for the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio...

...Lessner estimates that she has been involved in about a dozen efforts to boost recycling by restaurants and other businesses. Most recently, she's on a panel convened by Downtown's Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District that is trying to coordinate businesses into a single waste-hauling contract that would make recycling more affordable...