from The Huffington Post

Seattle’s Recycling Plan Involves Fewer Trash Pickups

Striving to reduce the trash it sends to landfills, Seattle has banned foam take-out containers and plastic bags, told residents they must recycle cardboard and compost food scraps, and set up a registry for people to opt-out of getting phonebooks.

Some city officials think the city can do even more: they’re now weighing whether to stop picking up garbage from homes every week.

Switching to every-other-week garbage collection would save the city about $6 million a year, officials say, while reducing neighborhood truck traffic and potentially keeping an additional 1,400 tons of waste a year out of the landfill.