From Mother Nature Network’s Matt Hickman:Hot on the tail of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s promise to dramatically expand residential curbside pickup services in his recycling-impaired megalopolis, the Bloomberg administration has just made a huge go in its sluggish however ongoing efforts to elevate Fresh York Megalopolis’s lagging-behind recycling operations from its “after-college clarinet program” status and double the megalopolis’s contemporary recycling rate of 15 percent by the year 2017. Late at the end week, it was announced that Birdie Ron Gonen, the 37-year-ancient co-founder and erstwhile CEO of Philadelphia-launched recycling rewards program RecycleBank, has been appointed as the NYC’s first recycling czar. The official title of the newly made position? It’s a huge designation for a huge job: Deputy commissioner for recycling and sustainability.Glance at More…
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