In one salvage project the county collected twelve tons of paper.

The service collects 200 tons of oil a year from restaurants.

The city said it had collected three tons of paper for recycling from the Garden area.

The city's recycling program collected 300 tons of office paper from municipal agencies alone last month.

The goal is to collect 200 tons by this weekend.

In 1981, when the trucks went into service, the department collected 3,183,000 tons of garbage.

Since 1998, Houston stores have collected more than 22 tons of warm clothing and supplies.

In 1983, it took 2,900 workers to collect 3.3 million tons.

The city is to collect 1,400 tons of recyclable material a day by April 1991.

The state ended up collecting only 18.5 million tons in grain.