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Muncie Sanitary District launching new recycling program throughout city in 2023


The Muncie Sanitary District is continuing to accept real Christmas trees for recycling at Heekin, McCulloch and Westside parks until Jan. 15. But the agency has a lot more planned for recycling in 2023.

In November the District won a $468,798.00 grant from the Recycling Market Development Board at the state for its "Do the Blue: Without the Blue Bags” program set to take effect in 2023.

The grant requires a 50% local match from MSD, said Jason Donati, storm water and recycling educator for the district. The board is part of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and MSD received the largest of nine grants awarded across the state.

As the new program's name indicates, MSD will be changing from use of blue bags for recycling. Instead residents who choose to participate will be receiving blue totes or toters similar to the green toters used for trash disposal. The state money can be used to help in the purchase of 7,000 96-gallon blue recycling toters to provide bagless recycling pickup for Muncie residents.

Donati said the toters cost about $68 a piece