But I do think mandatory recycling is the way of the future.

Alternatives like mandatory recycling are years away, they say.

The price increase forced the city to establish mandatory recycling.

New York State has already passed a law requiring mandatory recycling by 1992.

Currently eight towns have mandatory recycling and 101 others have voluntary programs.

He said the state upset a delicate balance when it established mandatory recycling.

"With mandatory recycling, the flow never stops, never even slows down."

Three weeks past Connecticut's self-imposed deadline for its communities to begin mandatory recycling, most are still scrambling to start their programs.

City officials are hoping mandatory commercial recycling gets better results than its residential counterpart.

They said they expected the agreement to call for mandatory recycling of some household trash throughout the state by 1993.