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# City council may expand single-bin recycling pilot program citywide
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/091202-story-20020912/
- Published: 2002-09-12T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:43:43.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Montana, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

A pilot program that allows some residents to throw all of their recycling trash into one bin may be expanded by the city council.

Residents and elected officials got a glimpse of what the new recycling bins would look like at Tuesday’s city council meeting. A row of possible containers were displayed along a sidewalk in front of City Hall.

Instead of sorting newspapers, glass and aluminum into separate bins, residents would be allowed to throw everything into the same container for pick-up.

The pilot program has been in place for roughly two years in some neighborhoods north of Montana Avenue, and those between Wilshire Boulevard and Montana Avenue and in areas between Pico and Ocean Park boulevards.

Council approval is needed before the program can be expanded to neighborhoods between Lincoln Boulevard and Centinela Avenue and between Colorado Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard. Other areas include 20th Street to Lincoln Boulevard and between Pico Boulevard and the Santa Monica Freeway.

Officials with the city’s Environment and Public Works Department want to eventually expand the program citywide.

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(Photo: Andrew H. Fixmer/Daily Press)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 12, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091202.pdf?ref=smdp.com)