Council suspends recycling program due to misuse (only 11.49 years left)

Payson Roundup ^ | 7/30/19 | Michele Nelson

[Libloather]

After years in recycling hospice, Payson pulled the plug on its long-suffering recycling program — at least for now.

**SNIP**

So far, efforts to recycle have mostly just made trash service for the town more expensive.

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Worse yet — the recycling materials inside the bins often ends up in the landfill because they get “contaminated,” and crews bring everything to the dump instead, said DeSchaaf.

“If you’re recycling pizza boxes with other boxes, they are contaminating everything. The sauce or cheese gets in the bin and it (the recycling) is contaminated. Then it all ends up in the landfill,” she said.

**SNIP**

Besides residents throwing garbage in recycling bins, another problem with the recycling program is that recycling products no longer has much value — to either a public or private entity because China has stopped buying our trash.

[Libloather]

Many goofy leftist fads have come and gone - generic packaging, global cooling, Jimmah Carter's oil shortage, the ozone hole, global warming (formerly climate change - converted to climate emergency) and now recycling.

Maybe we don't need anymore of their expert opinions because they really do suck.

[castlebrew]

Who writes (and edits) newspaper articles these days?

-> "...recycling products (plural subject) no longer has (singular verb) much value"

They both must be products of the so-called public education system...this stuff just detracts from any legitimacy in the article.

[Retired Chemist]

My city is losing money on recycling. They have the same complaints. Residents are putting stuff in their recycling bins that don’t belong which contaminates whole loads of material which ends up going to the landfill.

[eyedigress]

I got stuck behind a garbage truck in rural NC last week.

They had their green garbage bins and some special red bins for yard waste.

They all went into the same collection.

What a joke.

[BDParrish]

Thank you for your efforts to protect our language and every little bit helps!

My two cents: ...that (the) recycling (of) products no longer has value... ...that (the) products (of) recycling (efforts) have no value...

Recycling products is worthless, because recycling products are worthless! I love our language 😊

[IrishBrigade]

-> “...recycling products (plural subject) no longer has (singular verb) much value”

the verb in this case describes the action of ‘recycling’, which as used here is singular...’products’ is the object of the verb ‘recycle’...so the sentence is correct as it stands