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Green For All Blog Forum > Reducing The High Cost Of Municipal Waste Operations

Or, Setting A Different Standard Operating Procedure

SONOCO's Greensboro, North Carolina location told RecycleBill today that they had suspended buying scrap paper and cardboard because of low prices.

Steel mills in North Carolina are indicating a second price drop for the month of March and no one dares speculate how far down it will go. Please start building those high speed rail systems before the recycling industry-- an industry that employs more Americans than the automobile industry-- closes its doors.

It's hard times in the recycling industry. That said, municipal waste removal services must continue. But why must municipal waste services always result in a net loss when everything that gets tossed in a can has value-- even garbage?

In most states it has long been illegal to pick-up recyclables from the side of the road or from recycling or garbage cans and while it's usually overlooked by police, in San Francisco you can go directly to jail. RecycleBill understands concerns with littering, hostility or danger but what gives a private contractor more rights to the things people throw away than any other sunset or sunrise scavenger? Please continue reading...

March 9, 2009 | Registered CommenterRecycleBill