LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — City officials are considering a three-year plan to reduce landfill trash and encourage recycling in Lincoln.

The proposed ordinance, which is still in the draft stage, would allow consumers to either take their recycling material to one of nearly 30 free recycling sites or pay their waste haulers to take their recycling and garbage at the curb.

Tentatively, the draft says cardboard will be banned from the Lincoln landfill in April 2017. Newsprint would be banned a year later in 2018, and then recyclable paper would be banned in April 2019.

The Public Works and Utilities Department’s deputy director says recycling all paper would cut the landfill’s waste by 28 percent.

The ban will not include materials such as Styrofoam, glass and plastics.