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- Recycling Bin, Designed for Use in University City, Missouri, 1988-1989 - University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, became one of the first cites in the nation to adopt a curbside recycling program in March 1973. City officials expanded the program in the 1980s, making it a dual-stream system with two 18-gallon containers: one (yellow) for paper and another (blue) for household items such as glass, metal, and plastics.
- 1988-1989
- Collections - Artifact
Recycling Bin, Designed for Use in University City, Missouri, 1988-1989
University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, became one of the first cites in the nation to adopt a curbside recycling program in March 1973. City officials expanded the program in the 1980s, making it a dual-stream system with two 18-gallon containers: one (yellow) for paper and another (blue) for household items such as glass, metal, and plastics.
- Recycling Bin, Designed for Use in University City, Missouri, 1988-1989 - University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, became one of the first cites in the nation to adopt a curbside recycling program in March 1973. City officials expanded the program in the 1980s, making it a dual-stream system with two 18-gallon containers: one (yellow) for paper and another (blue) for household items such as glass, metal, and plastics.
- 1988-1989
- Collections - Artifact
Recycling Bin, Designed for Use in University City, Missouri, 1988-1989
University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, became one of the first cites in the nation to adopt a curbside recycling program in March 1973. City officials expanded the program in the 1980s, making it a dual-stream system with two 18-gallon containers: one (yellow) for paper and another (blue) for household items such as glass, metal, and plastics.
- Recycling Bin, 1991 -
- 1991
- Collections - Artifact
Recycling Bin, 1991
- Recycling Bin, Designed for Use in University City, Missouri, 1973 - University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, became one of the first cites in the nation to adopt a curbside recycling program in March 1973. Monsanto designed this plastic container to hold two weeks' worth of newspapers--the focus of the program. Eight years into the program, in 1981, city officials estimated that the newspaper recycled kept 85,000 trees from the paper mill.
- 1973
- Collections - Artifact
Recycling Bin, Designed for Use in University City, Missouri, 1973
University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, became one of the first cites in the nation to adopt a curbside recycling program in March 1973. Monsanto designed this plastic container to hold two weeks' worth of newspapers--the focus of the program. Eight years into the program, in 1981, city officials estimated that the newspaper recycled kept 85,000 trees from the paper mill.