The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
After more than a decade of failure and denial, Chicago is finally giving up the ghost on blue bag recycling.
By the end of 2011, every one of the 600,000 Chicago households that get city garbage pick-ups will make the shift to suburban-style curbside recycling from blue carts, instead of bags.
How could we bring up the blue bag operation without mentioning
Fred Bruno Barbara Mayor Daley's friend? As the Chicago Sun-Times reported:
It's the deal that could make Mayor Daley's friend Fred Bruno Barbara more than $100 million.
And just how much of that Barbara would get largely depended on City Hall.
Barbara got $58.5 million upfront when he sold three companies -- Fred Barbara Trucking, Envirotech Inc. and Shred-All Recycling Systems Inc. -- to a garbage company called American Disposal in 1997.
Barbara could have gotten another $50 million over the next nine years if American Disposal got additional business -- including the city of Chicago's recycling contract. Of that, $30 million was directly linked to the city's recycling program and the disposal of Chicago's residential garbage, according to a 1998 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
How could we bring up Fred Barbara without mentioning his
Uncle Fred?
