They don’t bother stating it here, since it would terrify all of the smug ‘recyclers’ who think they’re somehow saving the planet, but the reason that China stopped accepting low-grade plastic is because they’re trying to clean up the pollution in their air, and burning that junk is horrible for the air.
And so if they’re no longer going to burn it, why accept it in the first place, since it’s useless for any other form of ‘recycling’.
If recycling were economically justifiable, companies would be paying us to haul away our refuse.
Recycling has always been a liberal feel-good scam. It is completely unnecessary, doing nothing to "save" the planet.
Forced recycling does turn citizens into unpaid, involuntary trash sorters. And it enables units of government to choose companies to enrich. Neither of which is a function of government, but a consequence of bad government.
The only acceptable reason for a unit of government to impose solid waste recycling on its citizens is to lower cost to those citizens for that essential service. And that doesn't happen.
>>”the county makes a profit off of what the company can sell”
Seems extraordinarily unlikely. They may make some revenue, but I highly doubt there’s any profit if a true cost accounting is done.
A nearby small town learned back in the 90s it wasn’t worth it. The recycling center closed down. The guy we took the coke cans to closed down. The closest recycling center is 2 hours away.
A similar article was written about the recycling operation here in Southern Maine. I have been aware of the global market collapse of plastics etc. The problem with program here is moving to “single sort” or more specifically no sort recycling. Done to encourage recycling, I think it has been used by people who don’t understand what is recyclable and others who see it as free trash disposal.
I am generally a fan of recycling as long as it is done right. Here in Southern Maine it has reduced overall cost of solid waste management.