City resumes recycling collections April 6
A sanitation worker hauls a garbage can to his truck in the Evergreen neighborhood of Midtown, Memphis Jan. 31, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
For the past 13 weeks, city solid waste crews have been combining recyclables with other waste in a single collection because of the large number of crew member out with the COVID-19 virus or those in quarantine for possible exposure to the virus.
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