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Show Cedar Hills Considers Recycle Opt-Out Options by Harlow Clark To get higher participation participa-tion Cedar Hills is considering changing the recycling program, pro-gram, meaning that if residents don't want to participate they need to opt out or they will get a recycling can. "This is a good program," Mayor Gary Gygyi said. "It's not forcing anyone. "Yes, but it's punishing punish-ing them for forgetting," said Council Member Scott Jack-man. Jack-man. Council Member Trent Augustus agreed. "That hits close to people by making them take the responsibility to opt out rather than giving them the choice to opt in." Council Member Jenney Rees replied that some cities don't give people the option to opt out. "We could say, 'We're giving you the option to opt out." Council Member Daniel Zappala told a story about recycling. re-cycling. For a sixth-grade science sci-ence fair she wanted to find out what kind of poster would be more persuasive in promoting promot-ing recycling. She had two or three designs and asked people peo-ple to text her saying which design was more appealing to them. One appealed to emotion, with a picture of a baby seal and emotional language. Another An-other used logical arguments to appeal to people to recycle. She was completely surprised sur-prised when 95 percent of the respondents said they already recycled. When asked about it afterward af-terward Zappala speculated that maybe the only people comfortable replying were people who were already recycling. |