Is it Thursday? Or Every Other Thursday?

BY EILEEN BRADY
​THE NEWS JOURNAL OF WILMINGTON, OHIO

At least now I don’t have to remember whether it’s Thursday or Every Other Thursday. 
The city recently changed recycling pickup to become weekly, but it was just one reason that it’s not surprising that Wilmington’s curbside recycling rate is an abysmal 2.7 percent. 
It’s possible for communities to have successful curbside recycling programs. Ann Arbor, Mich. (population 22,000), has a 90 percent participation rate. Of course, people in Ann Arbor started getting serious about recycling in 1970, and Wilmington’s curbside program came along 35 years later. But in those 35 years, recycling has gone from obscurity to household word, so it’s not as if “curbside recycling” is a brand-new concept to Wilmington residents.
I love to recycle — not just for the altruistic benefit, but because it seriously reduces what’s in my trash can. 
I have lived in communities with successful curbside services and some without. When we moved back to Wilmington ...

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