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Recycling and Garbage
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San José is one of the few cities in American
that recycles more than 64% of our solid waste! Since curbside recycling
started in San José, you helped recycle…

tons of glass

372000
tons of newspaper
277,000 tons of mixed paper
132,000 tons of glass
135,000 tons of mixed recyclables
1,900,000 tons of yard trimmings

A total of 2,766,000 tons!!!

yard trimmings