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Convenience Entices Chattanooga Area Residents to Recycle

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There's really no longer an excuse not to recycle if you live in the Chattanooga area.

The City just started offering curbside pick ups every two weeks instead of once a month.

And local company Scenic City Recycling does it every week for a fee.

The convenience entices a growing number of customers to go green.

Leland Carter sorts bottles, cans, plastics cardboard and paper from a Red Bank customer.

Leland Carter, Scenic City Recycling, "Our slogan is helping the earth without the hassle "

The co owner of Scenic City Recycling stays busy with around 100 stops per day.

Carter, "It's definitely growing. The more customers we have, word of mouth is one of our strongest sources of new customers and seems like Chattanooga is really coming a long as far as education people know that recycling is a good thing now."

He and Joe Fowlkes got into the recycling business in July of 2007...offering weekly curbside pickup for a fee all over the Chattanooga area.

Joe Fowlkes, "We accept all colors of glass greens, browns blues, we take batteries we started taking clothes which we give to the community kitchen and all kinds of little tid bits we're constantly trying to add on when we find a place that will take them and recycle them, we try to add them on."

Fowlkes says Scenic City picks up around 10 or 15 clients every week.

The City of Chattanooga expects to add more customers to its recycling rolls too, now that its offering curbside pick up every two weeks instead of once a month.

The products get sorted at the Orange Grove recycling center.

Martin Smith, "Hopefully more people will be involved in recycling and there will be more products brought in here which keeps it out of the landfill and that's really everyone's goal is to keep it out of the landfill."

You have to sign up for the city's bi-weekly curbside pick up online or by phone.

Click here for more information on the City of Chattanooga's bi weekly curbside pick up.

Click here for more information on Scenic City Recycling.