31.   Recycling programs are popular with voters, and states and cities ratcheted up recycling goals.

32.   Some say that pay-as-you-throw systems should replace prevailing recycling programs across the board.

33.   Sort of a recycling program from hell.

34.   The city of Los Angeles has developed a massive recycling program to keep the millions of tons of rubble from the Northridge Earthquake out of local landfills.

35.   The city wants to use the redemption money essentially as a tax to rebuild a recycling program that the mayor said has become economically untenable in tough times.

36.   The company profited as recycling programs took hold in many major U.S. cities, but the company is now heavily exposed to the ups and downs of recycling prices.

37.   The collected money would finance a recycling program for computers and televisions.

38.   The environmental groups also prevailed in pressing for the use of more efficient energy systems and for recycling programs than landfills for waste management.

39.   The immediate economic benefits to New York City from its recycling program are not huge.

40.   The high cost of operating an electronics recycling program often forces them to look outside the government for help.