Dive summary:

• Tampa is in the middle of a push to provide 95-gallon recycling containers to every household but a study released last week showed that Tampa is still around the bottom of recycling programs for cities of its size.
• The Bridgestone Recycling and Sustainability Earth Day Survey ranked Tampa 20 percentage points behind some of the nation's better recyclers and found that more than 25% of Tampa residents don’t recycle at all.
• Local officials claim their numbers are so low because recycling isn't mandatory like in some cities; however, the study also found that nearly one-third of Tampa residents didn’t even know whether or not their neighborhood had curbside recycling.

From the article:

Tampa’s solid waste department is hoping to change that by rolling out its wheeled green carts to every one of the 80,000 or so garbage customers over the next year and a half. Hillsborough County is launching a similar program this year.

In February, the city’s solid waste department launched the “Be Smart, Use Your Cart” program, in which the 14-gallon blue recycling bins currently in use will be replaced with the much larger carts. The new cart, the department says on its website, “holds more recyclables, reduces litter and easily rolls to the curb and back.” ...