Where are we today when it comes to recycling? Small towns are finding it costs to recycle and are sending plastics, paper and other formerly recycled materials to landfills in order to save municipal budgets. How did we get to this point?
Apparently Tino hasn't been to a trash processing plant recently. Every load is dumped on the floor and sorted. Glass, paper. plastic and burnables. What can't be recycled into large bales gets burned. I constantly see large trucks carrying bailed plastics going to bottling plants that are turned into a raw material again. It is cheaper than making new plastics. The burning process makes electricity which is sold back into the grid. No longer do barges go out off our coast and dump garbage. Not for many decades. Private industry is taking care of most of it and if the government would stop trying to crush them with over taxation they would do more.
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Apparently Tino hasn't been to a trash processing plant recently. Every load is dumped on the floor and sorted. Glass, paper. plastic and burnables. What can't be recycled into large bales gets burned. I constantly see large trucks carrying bailed plastics going to bottling plants that are turned into a raw material again. It is cheaper than making new plastics. The burning process makes electricity which is sold back into the grid. No longer do barges go out off our coast and dump garbage. Not for many decades. Private industry is taking care of most of it and if the government would stop trying to crush them with over taxation they would do more.
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