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Salt Lake City is creating a recycling zone to offer tax credits for recycling businesses that promote green standards.
Recycling businesses can get tax credits for equipment and operating expenses if they recycle 50 percent of the materials they collect or use at least one-quarter of recycled products.
The Recycling Market Development Zone is on the city's west side. But some activists there say the new zone only reinforces a perception that the west side of the city is a dumping ground.
City councilman Van Turner is getting his restaurant, The Hook and Ladder, ready to open. He's seen it all on the west side of the city.
"We have auto scrappers, cardboard things, we are recycling garbage, recycling building materials. Everybody wants to recycle, but where do you put this? We have a lot of these things out west," he said.
Several other Utah cities, including Brigham City, Circleville and Wellington, already have some sort of credit.
The City Council voted to designate the recycling zone late last year.
Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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