The county now recycles only 17 percent of its trash, he said.

By contrast, the items recycled in the citywide program account for about 30 percent of the city's trash.

Before the test, Park Slope residents recycled 14 to 19 percent of their trash.

As late as 1980, the report said, less than 1 percent of the city's residential trash was recycled.

Mr. Jones said that the town is recycling about 15 percent of its trash.

Three incinerators already operating in the city take in about 10 percent of the city's trash.

For instance, Florida has a goal of recycling 30 percent of its trash by 1994.

Even proponents of recycling agree that the most any city has been able to recycle is 60 percent of its trash, officials said.

By 1990, under an ordinance passed by the Council last spring, the city is to recycle 50 percent of its trash.

You report that the city plans to burn 68 percent of its trash, or 10,000 tons a day.