Downtown Washington will soon have more recycling options thanks to a partnership between city officials and PepsiCo.
More than 350 recycling bins will be placed downtown under the new initiative announced Tuesday.
Richard Bradley, executive director of the Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District, said the bins should collect more than 1 million pounds of recyclable material a year that otherwise would have gone in the trash.
The bins are being provided by PepsiCo through its Dream Machine recycling initiative.
For every bottle or can recycled in one of the bins, PepsiCo will make a donation to a program that provides business training to disabled veterans.
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