Sentence examples for reducing garbage from inspiring English sources

The public should trust this new mayor to repair the recycling plan, which is useful both for its potential in reducing garbage and to control litter.

The budget proposes reducing garbage collection to once a week, eliminating street sweeping and reducing financing to the library and programs for the elderly to save a total of $4.4 million.

Consider the doomsday plan of contingency cuts that the mayor proposed, but did not implement, last spring: cutting the police force by 1,320 more positions, eliminating a fire company from eight stations that house two, raising express bus fares, closing 15 centers for the elderly, reducing garbage collections, eliminating 57 neighborhood youth programs, and cutting parks employees by 10percentt.

And many have said that the mayor's plan to reduce garbage pickup in low density areas outside Manhattan is particularly high on their list of cuts that they want to restore.

Those abandoned cuts -- which would have saved about $200 million -- would have reduced garbage collections, scaled back library hours, cut back Staten Island Ferry service at peak travel times and closed the zoos in Brooklyn and Queens.

Many of the schools are pushing waste-free lunches, where everything must be either compostable or reusable, in an effort to reduce garbage and the cost of hauling it away.

The authority has long explored ways to chase its rats away, including a recent push to remove trash cans from a small number of stations in an effort to reduce garbage in the system.

The mayor, who has been tetchy of late as he has come under fire from different constituencies, kept his cool yesterday when one woman in the audience, Cynthia Dennis, heckled him with a question about the city's plan to reduce garbage collections in July, just in time for the summer's heat to add to the city's stench.

The sanitation commissioner, John J. Doherty, testified before the City Council yesterday that even without the contingency cuts, his department would have to reduce garbage collection from three times a week to twice a week in many neighborhoods, and from twice a week to once a week in others, to save money.

The Web site section about Glad trash bags also includes a commercial that asks consumers to use "one less trash bag each month" to help cut down on plastic waste and tips on how to reduce garbage at events like tailgate parties to a single bag of trash.

Waste diversion and increased collection cost have forced some municipalities to reduce garbage collection frequency.