Dive summary:

• In efforts to expand recycling, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced New York City will start collecting and recycling rigid plastics.
• The addition is expected to save taxpayers $600,000 a year as well as 50,000 tons of landfill space.
• While the city has already begun accepting rigid plastics, officials won't start enforcing the new regulation until July.

From the article:

Robert Kelman, president of North America Metals at Sims Metal Management, which sorts the city's recycling, said the expansion of plastics recycling means "we are making New York City's curbside program as inclusive as any in the nation."

But the American Chemistry Council said it was disappointed to see the exclusion of polystyrene foam from the program.

"Polystyrene foam can and should be recycled in New York City, as it is in dozens of other cities," the organization said. ...