LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Republican majority of the Lincoln City Council has passed an altered version of the mayor’s proposed recycling ordinance.

The ordinance passed Monday eliminates the landfill ban on paper and cardboard that supporters of Mayor Chris Beutler’s (BYTE’-lur) proposal say is imperative to boosting the recycling rate.

The new ordinance retains a requirement that waste haulers offer curbside recycling and give the city data about the number of customers and pounds of material diverted from the landfill.

Councilman Trent Fellers, a Republican and author of the new version of the recycling ordinance, says his proposal moves Lincoln’s recycling forward.

Mayoral aide Jon Carlson says that a landfill ban on paper and cardboard is what drives a higher recycling rate and that without the ban, the ordinance loses effect.