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Recycling doesn't get the royal treatment in Imperial Polk County. Polk County homeowners have one of the worst — 57th out of 67 counties — recycling rates in the state at 9 percent, according to 2015 recycling figures compiled by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

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