Newsprint accounts for 8 percent of the nation's total solid waste, the agency said.

The administration will likely set a goal of recycling 25 percent of its waste in the next several years, officials said.

And it's key to the city's goal to reduce or recycle 51 percent of its waste by the year 2000.

The law calls for the city to be recycling 25 percent of its waste by April 1994.

We ship 11 percent of our solid waste out of state.

The county recycled 41.1 percent of its waste, up 0.8 percent from 1997.

About 10 percent of the country's waste is now recycled, a proportion that has remained essentially the same throughout the 1980's.

A new state law requires towns to recycle 25 percent of their waste by 1991.

The state's goal is to have 25 percent of Connecticut's waste recycled.

Eventually, recycling must account for more than 40 percent of our daily waste.