The Texas Tribune reported last week, after Austin's approval of a zero-waste plan passed in 2008, that Dallas will also start to recycling most of its garbage. The city adopted this plan on August 22nd, which states that Dallas will reclaim 84 percent of it's trash. Another city that might get on board is Houston, which has already improved on it's recycling programs.
Some possible issues that were talked about in this article were the amount of finances that would be needed to provide adequate programs for different residences, such as businesses and apartments, and bans for certain products. Another question was the possibility for the incineration of trash, which for now seems to be out of the picture.
With a total of 2.2 million tons of waste a year and an expected
population growth of 40 percent in the next ten years, its a good thing Dallas agreed to this
plan. Maybe other greatly populated cities, other than Houston, will see the benefits of this plan and slowly remove Texas carbon footprint.
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