New York will be returning to full recycling, and weekly pickups, in April.

The Council finally succeeded in expanding weekly pickups to the entire city, and the Mayor won several more months of delay to complete the program.

Under the plan, weekly pickups will be phased in over the next 18 months for the 41 districts that have biweekly recycling service.

The other 18 have weekly pickups under a pilot program.

When the cuts take effect later this year, only parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn will have weekly pickups.

Some who have been denied weekly pickups call it political favoritism.

The Speaker was committed to citywide weekly pickups, she said.

We never had weekly pickups and drop-offs, where everyone would gather uncomfortably around the front door.

Seattle charges $13.50 a month for a one-can weekly pickup, plus $9 per additional can.

The lack of weekly pickups presented another problem.