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Nashville’s curbside recycling is coming back Feb. 1

Paige PflegerWPLN News
Metro Nashville has announced that curbside recycling will resume.
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Metro Nashville will resume curbside recycling on Feb. 1.

The city halted recycling in December following staff shortages that affected trash pickup for several weeks. This has been a recurring issue with the city’s contractor, Red River Waste Solutions, which filed for bankruptcy in the fall.

More: Nashville temporarily halts curbside recycling due to staffing shortage

“I want to thank Metro Water Services and the employees at its Waste Services division for working long hours to cover for the failures of a private company and get curbside recycling back on schedule,” Mayor John Cooper said in a press release.

The city intends to start every-other-week recycling by July.

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Caroline Eggers covers environmental issues with a focus on equity for WPLN News through Report for America, a national service program that supports journalists in local newsrooms across the country. Before joining the station, she spent several years covering water quality issues, biodiversity, climate change and Mammoth Cave National Park for newsrooms in the South. Her reporting on homelessness and a runoff-related “fish kill” for the Bowling Green Daily News earned her 2020 Kentucky Press Association awards in the general news and extended coverage categories, respectively. Beyond deadlines, she is frequently dancing, playing piano and photographing wildlife and her poodle, Princess. She graduated from Emory University with majors in journalism and creative writing.

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