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The Hennepin County commissioners decided Tuesday to put some muscle into their oft-repeated threats to make all communities in the county develop effective garbage recycling programs.
The commissioners set guidelines that virtually dictate that the 46 cities have a residential recycling program that includes weekly or twice-a-month curbside pickup of cans, glass containers and newspapers.
The board gave each community approximately a year - by May 1, 1989 - to have a household program that removes 10 percent of the waste by separating cans, bottles and papers.
At present, nearly half the cities don't have curbside pickup although many of those cities expect to have programs operating sometime this year. Only a handful of cities, including Minneapolis, have twice-a-month pickup and only Plymouth has a once-a-week program. Frequent pickup is...