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A year after the Department of Streets’ Everything Goes! program debuted in the Northeast, officials continue to commend its role in ending residents’ separation anxiety over recycling.
Now able to toss their recyclable materials into one 20-ounce bin instead of separating them, many of the 123,000 residents targeted by the program have responded by lining their curbs with overflowing amounts of metal, plastics and paper every other week.
The result: a 33 percent increase in recycling tonnage between last July and April.

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EDITORIAL

They do it their way

From the standpoint of political ideology, President George Walker Bush and Mayor John Franklin Street have little in common, but one thing’s for sure: Neither one gives much of a darn about public image.
Take Mr. Street (please). The electronics guru-in-chief and chief executive of Philadelphia was happy to spend nearly 15 hours one day last week — 3:30 in the morning to 6 at night — waiting for a chance to purchase his very own, overrated, overstated, overpriced iPhone.

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