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Complete and utter failure by the mayor’s office and everyone else involved.
It’s a shame that a city as large as Indianapolis doesn’t have mandatory curbside recycling. As bad as Memphis Tennessee is with some things they do manage to get this right.
Ah yes, another “disappointing but not surprising” story about the Hogsett administration
Whay choose Waste Management when Republic Services does a fine job of picking up recycleable materials for those of us in Indianapolis who pay for that service now?
Both WM and Republic have really good recycling programs. Certainly a possibility that the city could privatize this effort as opposed to adding to the already bloated city/county government.
I wouldn’t call it really good. It’s fair. More than half the plastic I get can’t be recycled. They will reject any plastic bags, from standard plastic garbage bags to the plastic padded Amazon envelopes.
The original Thrive Indianapolis plan was actually originally put in place in 2018 with a 2019 start. Mayor Ballard was mayor when this was agreed to and Mayor Hogsett has never actually had interest in following through. There was also supposed to be trial curbside recycling for part of Indianapolis in 2023; this has not happened yet and thus the need to delay until 2028. Also, notice that subscription curbside compost pickup is also supposed to be in place for all Indianapolis in 2025; there is absolutely no update from the city on moving forward with this initiative. See the link to the 2018 copyright website below for more information.
https://www.thriveindianapolis.com/waste-recycling
I should correct my posting. Mayor Hogsett was in office in 2018, not Mayor Ballard. But the rest is still correct. Generally inaction has been the action on curbside recycling and subscription curbside composting since 2018-2019.
Indianapolis is one of the only cities of its size (top 20 largest in the US) that lacks curbside recycling, which for this time in history is considered a necessity. Circular Indiana has reached out to the City to connect them to other elected officials from sister cities (similar size and demographic) who have implemented curbside and who have succeeded with higher diversion rates in order to share best practices. Curbside has been done successfully by many others, time and time again, and we do not need to recreate the wheel. There are solutions out there and processes we can follow. The lack of progress in our own City is hard to understand. Unless Indianapolis pushes this forward we will fall even further behind the curve and our state’s reputation will continue to suffer. As a resident it is embarrassing that we are struggling with something as basic as curbside recycling. As an organization advocating for circularity, it is painful to see many valuable materials (equating to dollars) lost to landfills when they could be used as part of a thriving economy.
I would love to see a city recycling. With careful sorting more than half of my waste now goes into recycling. But lack of progress isn’t hard to understand. There is no support from the state for something as “woke” as recycling. With that, the next question is what will the city cut because it costs more to recycle. It’s not just a failure by the city.
2028 =never
Before migrating to the Marion county area, I lived in Mt Vernon Indiana, generally thought of as the Hoosier boondocks. However, in the boonies we had curbside recycling beginning in 1997. What separates Mt Vernon and Indianapolis on curbside recycling? It comes down to the leadership and vision from the Posey County Solid Waste Management District Director.
Curbside recycling is not simple but it is not rocket science. Republic, Waste Management and Rumpke have serviced curbside all across the country for years. Columbus, Ohio (Fairfield County) has achieved a 97% residential access to curbside and 50%recycle diversion. They, and others, have offered to share their best practices with Indianapolis, we just need the leadership to act.
It is well established that citizen access to recycling is a key to reducing waste. Time to give Indianapolis residents the same access that other major cities have enjoy for years.
Ken M
I am all for recycling but comparing Posey County to Marion County is a stretch.
Shameful.
When DPW has two separate policies for the City trash trucks, and Republic trash trucks (gray cans vs blue cans), where those with blue cans get heavy trash pick up WEEKLY, and gray can areas get it one day a month, IF it gets picked up at all…….how exactly are they going to split recycle routes? One neighborhood gets picked up weekly, the other never gets picked up? Ever noticed which neighborhoods get gray or blue cans? Compare that to where the worst streets and alleys are located. Also, have you noticed all the brand new trucks for DPW…..from pick ups to heavy dump trucks, all new……..yet, those dollars I do believe were meant to fix our streets.
Moral of story……I would not push for any new agendas out of DPW until after Hogsett and his cronies are OUT!! Any funding will NEVER go where it is suppose to go, and there will NEVER be equal services for all real estate tax payers, whom will be funding any new trash initiative and its price tag.
The solution in my view is the establishment of a solid waste management district for Marion County. Most every other has one or is part of one. That would take (most of) the politics out of the issue because then it would not be elected officials raising fees/taxes, which they are want to do.
It is artificial intelligence for rocket science that’s necessary to implement curbside recycling by the city of Indianoplace. Let’s see here, uh Greenwood has curbside recycling pickup every 2 weeks. Uh, Carmel has recycling also. Of course it will take the City a long time to “educate” its residents on what the word recycling means, let alone actually implementing the process. Ineptitude in the City administration and likely too much playtime in the mayor’s office will drag this program out to 2031. Kick the ole recyclable cans on down the road Joey.