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F.C. Recycling Rate Up from 63 to 66 Percent

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Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields announced at Monday’s City Council meeting that the recycling rate in the City has grown in the last year from 63 to 66 percent as percentages of total solid waste. Shields told the News-Press that the statistics are generated by the City in conjunction with Fairfax County and are subsequently reported to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

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