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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Brett Chase

Chicago still lacks tools to police recycling scofflaws: watchdog report

The city hasn’t fixed oversight of businesses and apartment building owners who don’t recycle more than two years after a watchdog report found problems. (Sun-Times file)

More than two years after a scathing report criticizing the city’s lack of enforcement of recycling laws, a watchdog says Chicago still hasn’t beefed up its oversight.

The Department of Streets and Sanitation doesn’t adequately police businesses, apartment buildings or condos to recycle, a city inspector general investigation found in late 2020.

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