When will the City of Cleveland reboot its recycling program?
CLEVELAND — The person spearheading the City of Cleveland’s journey back to a curbside recycling program knows what it was like to be outside city government looking in at an initiative he cared deeply about.
“It’s interesting, you get to see all aspects of the problem from the inside,” said Brumfield. “Having been on the outside helped to inform how I look at it from the inside.”One of the main reasons Cleveland’s recycling program couldn’t be maintained was because Clevelanders have struggled to do it effectively in the past.
Brumfield was hired as the recycling coordinator and a series of bids went out to initially restart the recycling program before the end of 2021. That’s also when an opt-in program opened up, allowing residents to sign up to be included in curbside pick up. So far, about 27,000 households have signed up. Brumfield hopes to allow more residents to opt-in once the city has a contract with a processor in place.
“We do have some contamination issues, or we did historically, but that’s not really the reason it fell through,” said Brumfield. “It was an accumulation of the small parts not being able to match up.” That’s why Brumfield says communication is going to be key between the city and the more than 27,000 households that have opted into the program so far. It’s also why he says communication has been scarce so far because recycling information depends on a contract between the city and a recycling processor that hasn’t been finalized yet.
“It’s about saying it in layman’s terms and regular people’s terms that ‘Here’s what we’re putting int hat bin, and here’s what we’re not putting in it,’ and a little bit about why,” said Brumfield. “So people can understand it’s not just because, ‘Ren said so.’ It’s because we want to make this a really productive and good program.
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