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Rampant recycling fraud is draining California cash [They built it]
Las Angeles Times ^ | October 7, 2012 | Jessica Garrison

Posted on 10/07/2012 1:56:25 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 10/07/2012 1:56:34 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I always wonder about these programs. IF they actually recycle a can or a bottle, what does it cost to do it?

I don’t recycle anything.......


2 posted on 10/07/2012 2:02:03 PM PDT by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

When government hands out money, this is what happens


3 posted on 10/07/2012 2:03:46 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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It’s quite a story...... and then,

“This year, CalRecycle has removed 19 recycling centers from the program and launched reviews of 256 others.”


4 posted on 10/07/2012 2:04:00 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Apparently can recycling makes SOME economic sense but when government hands out cash, people are going to cheat


5 posted on 10/07/2012 2:06:03 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

For God’s sake...Government get the heck out of our hair! All you can do is screw up anything you touch. Tin cans, low flow toilets and spotted owls all have proved to be a disaster along with free food, free education and free anything. Big Government GO AWAY!


6 posted on 10/07/2012 2:08:22 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: GeronL
When government hands out money, this is what happens

Exactly!

Oh, and don't forget to put your recycle box at the curb.

In Great Britian: ....."Cornwall's verdant lanes are now becoming better known for being littered with an assortment of multi-coloured rubbish bags as the council forces residents to separate recycling into six different containers.

Richard Madeley, who has a holiday home in the area, said the system is causing his beloved corner of the county to become a "disgrace".

The television presenter is one of 250,000 households forced to laboriously separate paper into blue bags, cardboard into orange sacks, glass into a black plastic box, plastics and tin into a red bag and garden waste into a brown wheelie bin - not forgetting the black bag for ‘non-recyclable’ waste.

The 56-year-old said: "It is really awful to see all these coloured bags and boxes littering our countryside.”

Cornwall Council is just the latest local authority to introduce more separate bin collections, with some providing residents with up to nine bins, including a slop bucket for food waste, in order to boost EU-imposed recycling targets. ...."

7 posted on 10/07/2012 2:12:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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........Big Government GO AWAY!

Right. There is NO FREE LUNCH - only federal hooks in your hide (and you pay for them).

8 posted on 10/07/2012 2:13:43 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Leftwing Fascism was such a stupid choice


9 posted on 10/07/2012 2:14:15 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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I live in Tennessee where there is no beverage container deposit. However many products sold here are labeled CA CRV—the California refund code—and 5 CENTS REFUND CT,VT,ME,MA,OR,IA,NY, [10 CENTS MI] [10 CENTS NV].
10 posted on 10/07/2012 2:14:27 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Bahiyah at 12:31 PM October 7, 2012
The only solution is to make recycling uniform across the land in all States. Then we’ll get truck loads of trash comming from Mexico for trade into cash.


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11 posted on 10/07/2012 2:16:49 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.))
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This is nothing new...on an episode of Seinfeld, Newman & Cramer borrowed a US Postal van to take a truck-load of 5 cent New York cans to Michigan to collect 10 cents apiece that Michigan pays for returns!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1blsZxXDCU


12 posted on 10/07/2012 2:17:52 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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I remember that, lol.

I bet there are people who try that on a bigger scale


13 posted on 10/07/2012 2:19:28 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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How long until this is deemed a felony?


14 posted on 10/07/2012 2:21:53 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: Minutemen

How long until this is deemed a felony?


15 posted on 10/07/2012 2:21:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What government program that spends taxpayers money buying something is not just rife with fraud but ripe for it? Zero, zilch, none.

And today, is there any reason for government recycling, if, “used” plastics and aluminum ARE economically efficient for container makers to use? And if so, then isn’t it worth it for commercial recyclers to buy it, themselves, and wouldn’t they do a better job than the government at insuring THEY were not defrauded.

What is it that government takers of the used platic and aluminum do? Don’t they just sell it to the actual industrial users of it?

Why not let the packaging industry run the “recycling” programs, offering their own rewards for used plastic and aluminum - and get the government and taxes out of it.


16 posted on 10/07/2012 2:24:07 PM PDT by Wuli
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Newman is probably already in prison for his postal felony...LOL


17 posted on 10/07/2012 2:24:24 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Red in Blue PA

To help identify people bringing cans into California, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last month that will require those importing more than 25 pounds of aluminum or plastic or 250 pounds of glass to declare at the border what their purpose is and the source and destination of the material.


18 posted on 10/07/2012 2:25:39 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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We have a couple who moved here from California and they save cans and when they visit California it pays for their trip.


19 posted on 10/07/2012 2:26:57 PM PDT by tiki
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Kramer and Newman at it again?


20 posted on 10/07/2012 2:30:05 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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