Dive summary:

• The mayor of Rome, N.Y. announced the city has lowered the amount of waste sent to the landfill in the last year by 11 tons.
• The dip is due to a new policy which limits the amount of waste a resident can throw out to 100 gallons.
• The mayor says the next thing they need to tackle in the city is upping the 17% recycling rate.

From the article:

In his State of the City address, the Joseph Fusco said a new policy to limit the amount of trash residents put at the curb dropped the annual tonnage collected from 8,500 tons to 7,400 tons, the Observer-Dispatch reported. The policy allows residents to limit garbage to cans and a maximum of three cans or 100 gallons, the newspaper reported. ...