Lightfoot to launch waste management study, hopes to find way to improve Chicago’s dismal recycling rate

It’s not clear if the study will look at replacing Chicago’s 9.50-a-month garbage collection fee with a volume-based fee that gives people a financial incentive to recycle. But one of the mayor’s closest City Council allies said it should.

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