It has been three years since the Council passed the city's first recycling law, a program many rejoiced in.

The city's mandatory recycling law, which took effect in 1989, completed the circle.

Under the 1989 recycling law, the city was required to collect that amount by April 1992.

New Jersey's mandatory recycling law is now over a year old.

"The job of the executive branch now is to comply with the recycling law," he said.

The recycling law mandates that all city residents be involved in the program by 1992.

The Giuliani administration said a recycling law would cost the city at least $100 million.

The state's mandatory recycling law has also taken its toll.

They also insist on paying attention to the new recycling laws, no matter what.

New York became the only large city in the nation to use the police to enforce its recycling law.