YONKERS, NY (AP) -- Westchester County is stepping up recycling efforts. Beginning February 1st, Westchester homeowners are going to need see-through plastic garbage bags to take out their trash. The trash hauler sees paper, plastic or metal cans in the bag - it will be left on the curb.
County Executive Andrew Spano says there will be increased education and enforcement of the county's recycling laws. He adds there also will be closer monitoring of what garbage haulers are delivering to the county's burn plant.
Spano says when the law went into effect in 1992, ordering people to separate papers and plastics and metal, Westchester was recycling only about 9 percent of its trash.
In the first eight years that the law was in effect, recycling rates grew to 42 percent.
Already some of the municipalities that have attended county workshops on the recycling law have been putting ``OOPS!'' stickers on individual trash cans that contain recyclables such as plastic milk containers, tin cans and glass bottles.
Westchester has contacted 13,000 businesses as well as school districts, hospitals and municipalities about the increased enforcement.
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