Dive summary:

• About 90 young volunteers in Paterson, N.J. are going to start going door to door around their community explaining the new recycling program to their neighbors, trying to encourage their participation.
• The new program will feature reward points — when recycling is picked up every week a barcode will keep track of how much every house recycles and distribute reward points accordingly.
• Mayor Jeffery Jones says Paterson has a reputation for being dirty because people are accustomed to throwing their trash on the streets without thinking; by educating residents, he hopes to clean the city up.

From the article:

Kleinz Samuel, a student at the Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology, said he volunteered to go door to door because believes the program recycling will help save the city money so more parks can be built.

Another student from the Science and Technology charter school, Alisia Brown, w said she was encouraged by her Girl Scout leader, Adrienne Fulcher, to join the initiative.” I would like to make the community a better place for younger kids to play around and not get hurt,” said Brown. ..