Dive Summary: 

• The Marine Corps Base in Albany, New York has gained a new recycling vendor, which will allow the base to increase the breadth of materials it can now accept for recycling.
• The base is now capable of recycling mixed paper, magazines and antifreeze, in addition to books and colored paper.
• The base's "Qualifies Recycling Program" is part of an effort to abide by Executive Order 13514, in which all federal agencies must divert 50% of landfill waste by 2015.

From the article:

“There is only a 20-percent participation rate among Base Housing residents,” Metts said. “The goal is 100 percent.”

Hubert “Ski” Smigelski, deputy director, Installation and Environment Division, said. “In 2000, we recycled 444 tons annually on the base side, excluding parts from then-Maintenance Center Albany, but by 2012, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany had recycled 3,394 tons annually.