Growing number of cities suspending recycling programs over rising costs

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More than 50 municipalities across the U.S. are no longer able to afford curbside recycling programs due to skyrocketing prices. As a result, tons of recyclables are being dumped in landfills.

 

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SRuhle My city's contract for recycling pickup just increased from $10 to $70 per ton(?). Recycling will soon be something my progressive community no longer provides. As it is, we no longer recycle 3, 6, and un-numbered plastic, shiny cardboard and paper, etc.

Considering most ppl don’t seperate what can and can’t be recycled it’s no wonder why.

Don’t quiet understand that hundreds of billions of dollars can be allocated to the military every year, but no money for the recycling programs?

Trump's world could care less! Consume, destroy, make money...if I have billions that's all that matters bah hahaha

Melissalhf Not everything has to be about money and profit. The Planet’s survival has to be number one, or their will not be any sustainable Life on a broken Planet

SRuhle It's a scam or they under establishment the really cost of it an it's to late to turn back because it's all about the earth we live in or they'll have to go back to glass an I'm all right with the glass as I grow up seams to be safer an cleaner

SRuhle Because China stopped taking them. That's the reason.

SRuhle Making America Great? This is what Republican America looks like. Recycling plastic isn't a Republican priority. Recycling money from the poor and middle class to the pockets of the rich is. This next election asks you to answer this: What kind of America do you want? Well?

I shop as if nothing is recyclable Grocery stores with everything wrapped in plastic and clam shells Pass Also anyone who buys bottled water and has clean tap water is a grade A moron for many reasons Reduce Reduce Reduce

SRuhle Why is this so expensive? Wouldn't a tax rebate would cure some of this? Recycling should be mandatory for every one & industry. A well run industry with a manufacturing company attached could mean good paying jobs and a way to sell sustainable products.

SRuhle This is the best America can do, just give up and dump it?

Looks like they just cleaned up after latest MAGA event!

SRuhle More bad news for America, thanks Dear Leader.

SRuhle But, but, but... capitalism .

Government got involved. Politicians got rich. Taxpayers got screwed. Its nothing new. Next story?

We should burn it underground. I know places where pedophiles live that we can use.

LucyTurnbull_AO More money in guns than rubbish?

Small towns 2 Hillsboro KS struggling also

D_Melissa2 Trump will fix

Making America Great Again 🇺🇸 ... One Dump at a time ... it takes a few years before toxins leach into the water supply then a few more for humans & wildlife to display the symptoms & effects 🤨 Donny will be long gone before the fallout surfaced😡

Not good

michikokakutani The f35 program and the wall are going great though

How about companies that continue to package their goods in unrecyclable material be made to take it back? Pretty sure they’d find an alternate package ASAP

They were never recycled anyway.

Future industry... Landfill mining & reclamation... Ugly job but someone's gonna have to do it...

learn how to recycle the right way 1st.

Total joke in separating your garbage. There's no huge profits nor incentives for businesses to bother doing it as it costs $$/energy to recycle. Exporting used to be popular but no country wants your garbage anymore.

We started being charged for recycling 5 years ago.

That’s probably what’s been going on the whole time.

Dump the product back to the companies, make them change their packaging to an earth friendly type.

👍

We should be moving towards banning single use products anyway.

Another FAILED Democrat policy. Democrats are WRONG about everything.

this company is turning plastic waste back into unprocessed oil

75% of recyclables aren’t recycled anyway. It’s too expensive

Thanks Donald

This is happening because China is no longer accepting our trash? I guess that means all the Nickelback concerts over there are cancelled until further notice as well

This is my point! While we spend billions of federal taxpayers money on a stupid wall, middle and low size communities are struggling to provide public services. A round of golf at Maralago would help one or more towns with their recycling program.

This is insane

Good, recycling is a waste of energy

Wtf! Really?

We're eventually going to be charged for recycling service. It'll be considered a tax. I'm not in favor of it, but it might change behaviors in a way that results in less material waste.

Remember the movie about not being able to solve basic problems.......Idiocracy.

It's all good, burying it will create a permanent fossil record of our time, 2020 will live on forever!!!!

NBCNightlyNews Stop ordering and buying junk with excessive packaging

Top 4 Retailers offering Recycling Programs 💚♻️💚 recycle recycling indiana

adamonzon Aqui estamos así hace rato!!! Que tragedia!!!

Since MikeBloomberg is 'giving his money sway' this is sumthing worth giving it too..

NBCNightlyNews Very sad statement for a world power!

NBCNightlyNews Only the federal government can fix this...

NBCNightlyNews 😢

Considering only about 5% of stuff picked up is actually recyclable, it’s not worth it. A state in Australia is stopping it.

Our little planet is getting smaller by the day

Winning.

Solution: More immigration!

Recycling is a lie

🤣🤣🤣 Liberals rarely think things through...

Just great now what?

That’s how trump is taking care of citizens taxpayers and the country he creams he love So much! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Bury them at mar-a-lago

Make Producers Pay Maine Dirigo LD2104

News flash they been doin it since the30s

Because the whole process was designed to appease a crowd and make money.

That’s because these municipalities still operate to old standards. Cannot pay, do not buy! Tried a new fashion, can’t afford, do not buy! But to appear progressive and woke the real genuine phoney pony GavinNewsom will borrow until California goes bankrupt.

In Michigan The Former RIZZO Garbage Company Paid 2 Play In Fraudulent Contract Bidding Scheme Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Received 28-Yrs Prison Sentence. RIZZO NOW 1-ONLY Garbage Co Residents Forced 2Use. Higher Costs Majority NOT Recycling Refusing RIZZO

But there's money to help non-citizens

More fallout from trump’s trade war!

What crapp! We can spend almost 900,000,000,000-dollars on military might, yet we rot further from the inside overloaded with garbage destroying our living environments, unrecycled.

adamonzon Que mal Dios mio

Yes Licella in Aust is doing a great job with recycling plastics. They need to build more Licella recycling plants

Doesn't matter. The countries we sell it to just dump it in rivers that lead to the ocean so it's better off in a landfill anyways

The recycling programs in your area are probably a Hoax. Only paper & cardboard-glass? are being recycled?

That's the secret of many Refuse companies but you still pay for recycling.

This is a business that had no vision and lousy understanding of the global market for recycled materials. Looking at you WasteManagement republicservices

Recycling has ALWAYS been a scam. The materials are often just shipped off to poorer countries to be 'recycled' and most ended up being burned, dumped in the ocean, or in their garbage dumps.

I wonder what the EPA environmentalProtectionAgency has to say about this.

this is honestly scary

I’m pretty positive we’ve been paying for “recycling” that hasn’t actually been recycled for at least a year now. garbagenation

That’s probably where it all goes anyway. 🗽🇺🇸

They have enough to subsidize corporations and banks though this is pure greed

That's what happens when China quits buying our garbage, people wake up!

Are we gonna go on like this?

Thanks Democrats for your sh*t cities

But there is money for a space force...

mary_swilling That's sad. I suspected that recycling would be too expensive. Sadly, most people just don't care.

Recycling is good, but “man-made climate change” is a hoax perpetrated by tree hugging zealots and money grabbing elitists.

Greedy companies

Let’s just wrap it up and call it a civilization Had an ok run. Mostly miserable, but some cool 💩 Like the moon landing and puppies 🐶

Stop👏using👏plastic👏

I would like to see places to drop off things like plastic cups or bottles at businesses that sells the containers like plastic McDonald’s cups or 2 liter bottles etc.

The companies that produce rubbish, should be responsible for taking it back, not the tax payers.

Yet our military is the 1 polluter & oil/gas waster in the US. Cut the military by 60% for starters.

Happened where I live. Distressing.

But, under no circumstances, should we reduce our dependence on plastic.

Be like Sweden:

This will only get worse as people keep popping out these uglyass kids 😂😂

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