By the end of the month, Philadelphia says it will stop incinerating half its recyclables — a practice brought on after China stopped taking recycling from the United States. Scott McGrath, the city's environmental planner, said Thursday that the Streets Department was close to an agreement with Waste Management to process the city's recycling at the company's State Road and Bleigh Avenue facility. There, the recycling will be separated. Any nonrecyclables will then be taken to Waste Management's facilities in Falls Township, Bucks County. A small portion of those nonrecyclables might be incinerated, but nothing close to the amount being burned now, McGrath said. Currently, the city is sending half its recycling pickup to Waste Management and the other half to Covanta's waste-to-energy plant in Chester, where it is burned. Under the new contract, all of the recycling will be handled by Waste Management. "I can't let out a lot of details until we get everything signed," McGrath said.