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• (3 a a hi ' with customers I rRecycling Sanitation company's experiment leads to growth of free program By Maury Kane h 7 I The Stockton Record Howother citiesprograms work ome 20,000 Stockton homes are to the process of being offered Here's the experience of other California cities with curbside recycling pro- free curbside recycling service. grams: Louise Simonelli and her daughter N Palo Alto — Started voluntary program in 1978, 69 percent participation; and neighbor,Bonnie Silvani,are no cost to participants, given two burlap bags — one for glass, other for delighted. aluminum cans — newspapers bundled or bagged; private contractor gets The two have been taking their proceeds from sale of recyclables. aluminum cans,glass bottles and ® San Jose — Has had voluntary program for four years, this first year newspapers to a recycling station in a citywide; 60 percent participation; city contracts for recylables collection from supermarket parking lot several Recycle America, subsidiary of garbage collector, Waste Management Inc.; blocks from their homes and participants pay portion of collection cost in taxes; city provides.three 10- donating them in the interest of gallon containers. conservation of natural resources. ® Walnut Creek — Started voluntary six-month pilot program Nov. 1; 85 Both said they were"pleasantly percent participation among 3,500 single-family homes; no charge, city pro- surprised"on Monday morning when vides 11-gallon container for glass and aluminum, participants bag or bundle they each found two 5-gallon plastic newspapers; collection contractor, Pacific Rim Recycling of Benicia, antic- buckets on their driveways—one ipates a customer fee of 55 cents to $1 per month per participant if program can marked "aluminum and glass," goes citywide. the other marked "newspapers" — ■ Los Altos — Citywide program in seventh year, voluntary; participants pay compliments of Sunrise Sanitation surcharge of 2.4 percent of garbage collection cost per month, averages Service Inc.of Stockton. $2.62; Los Altos Garbage Co. collects recyclables, but city gets proceeds from "This service will be a lot more their sales; garbage company provides separate containers for aluminum and convenient for us,"said Simonelli. glass, participants bag or bundle newspapers. "We're going to be contributing even more now." Silvani thinks the voluntary prog4 area are covered by early March. up. "ought to be made mandatory, Under its garbage collection Sunrise will donate 10 percent of the adding: contract with the city,Sunrise serves profits from the sale of the recyclables "Recycling is s the area west of EI Dorado Street and to local charities.The first month's thing." west of Thornton Road.Stockton recipients will be St. Mary's Dining Scavengers serves the city's eastern Room and the Stockton Women's The green buckets will show up in half. Shelter. front of more westside Stockton homes The buckets will be emptied by A three-month pilot program I until all residences in Sunrise Sunrise truck and trailer crews on the J&mtroduced early this year at 50 homes f S,�[iitation Service's garbage col „_ ' a same day residents'garbage is picked z See RECYCLE,e-4 I