Hmmm...that was “unexpected”.
Actually, it IS possible to profitably recycle...but as soon as the government gets involved, just like everything else, it turns into crap.
Quelle surprise. /s
If I thought that stuff that I throw away had any value,
well ... then I wouldn’t be throwing it away.
Aluminum isn’t worth what it once was even a few years ago, so the payout from recycling aluminum cans isn’t there. Industrial metals in general have fallen.
It doesn’t matter that it is unsustainable, we all “feel” better don’t we?
I help save my town money by NOT recycling.
But all the do-gooders still get to feel good at others' expense.
Our county commission sold the public on a new single-stream recycling facility afew years ago with the claim that it would be a money maker. It now loses $300K per year.
Not just there... also in Montana
(still haven’t found out how this person obtained this job/position. She always had her nose buried in a book at the library when I visited)
Any successful recycling program is going to lose money. Only the liberals think ‘we’re smart enough to make it work’.
I wouldn’t be surprised. You’re probably close to the truth there if not quite there. I agree with your statement.
It’s not with a lot of joy that I come to that conclusion, because we are a large population and we are a consumable society.
We have a lot of trash. If we could recycle most of it at a profit and reuse it, that would be a great outcome.
I do wonder if they are thinking smart in how they are gong about it. Perhaps they are and it could never work.
I’d sure like to have some very capable people review the processes before tossing in the towel.
Even burning some of the waste to create energy should result in some profit.
Increasing landfill is not optimal.
There’a SIMPLE SOLUTION. Privatize it.
The headline is wrong.
It brought in the expected profits to the political donors.
I have to tell you, the combination of recycling and a bio fuel electric plant has cut costs in our area. Significantly.
The town is pretty strict about recycling, and they started charging for extra bags/cans of trash. I thought it sucked at first, but the extra costs have been offset by better focus on recycling.
These guys must be doing it wrong, or paying off the wrong crooks. Because in outer area of about 150,000 people it really works.
I suspect it brought the expected profits, just not the advertised profits. Anyone who thinks recycling (except maybe metals) is cost effective is a fool.
Just another gummit boondoggle designed to give workers 100K jobs.
Pray America wakes
We used to recycle newspapers when I was in grade school 45 years ago. I wonder how much of that was a scam?
Yes but it makes liberals “feel” good and after all, isn’t that what’s important?
In the mean time, I will continue to burn my old tires and card board packing crates.
Tip - Packaging that comes with Christmas toys, that hard plastic stuff, makes thick black, pungent, smoke and smolders for a very long time.