Mayor Daley’s controversial blue-bag recycling program will end this summer and the city will expand suburban-style recycling across the city by 2011. City Hall has been slowly moving toward replacing ...

Participation in the city of Chicago's blue bag recycling program is much lower than Mayor Richard Daley's administration has claimed for years, according to the only recent citywide study. Although ...

Since the city changed from dual stream recycling to single stream, recycling may be easier for the consumer, but is more difficult for the facilities sorting the materials. Using blue plastic bags ...

The four Chicago sorting centers that are at the heart of the city’s new blue-bag recycling program were black boxes Monday on the first day of the program. Garbage trucks emptied their loads of trash ...

The Daley administration’s Blue Bag recycling program was officially declared dead Friday morning. It was 17. City officials offered no lamentations for the program in announcing its demise at a press ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: I read recently that because China is no longer accepting U.S. recyclables, many recyclables end up in the ...

UTICA — Residents of Utica may have noticed an increase in the cost of blue bags at the beginning of this month. Starting April 1, the price for big bags went up to $1.85 and the cost for small bags ...

I had a nice summer, but it was extremely stressful. It was a full-time job prepping my freshman for the big college drop off. There were lots of lists and months of shopping, nagging, scheduling ...