LANSING – The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has announced a Feb. 15, 2016 kickoff for a new team challenge to develop innovative strategies to increase the state’s residential recycling rate.
The challenge, called Recycle by Design, is one of the key initiatives of Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to double residential recycling in Michigan. The 12-month challenge will provide incentives to local and regional public-private partnership teams to develop strategies to increase recycling.
Michiganders return 93 percent of their bottles and cans to the store. But on every other reusable product – glass, paper, plastics, metals, organics – the state has fallen behind. According to the recent Michigan Recycling Index, prepared by the Michigan Recycling Coalition and Ann Arbor-based Resource Recycling Systems, Michigan’s overall recycling rate is only 15 percent, lower than every other Great Lakes state, and far behind the national average of 34 percent.
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