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ROANOKE, Va. - If you live in the City of Roanoke, you’re about to become familiar with a new term: single stream.
Beginning this summer, the city will start phasing in a new recycling system.
Through a contract with a local recycling company, the city will get 35,000 new, 96-gallon trash cans that they’ll distribute to residents.
Right now, people who live in the City of Roanoke have to sort recycling on their own.
Single stream means all recycling; plastic, aluminum, glass and paper will go into that one trash can.
The plan now is for the city to collect that recycling every other week.
The hope is to have everything up and running by the first week of October.
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