"Even if cities and towns had to pay for their paper to be recycled, officials from several Massachusetts municipalities said it would be cheaper than throwing away that paper as waste"
So now we have to pay those mob companies to pick up?
If this is SO GOOD for the environment, what is with the trouble?
"More than a third of the country's recycled paper was sent abroad. The vast majority was loaded onto tankers headed to China, where mills turn it into corrugated cardboard boxes often used to package televisions and stereos before they are shipped back to the United States"
What? I guess it is NOT THAT GOOD for the environment, either!!!!
"Collected recyclables pile up as profits they generate fall" by Bina Venkataraman, Globe Correspondent | December 14, 2008
SALEM - Fifteen-foot towers of rain-soaked cardboard and paper crowd a paved 3-acre lot. More than 3,000 tons of old newspapers, office paper, and boxes from homes and businesses on the North Shore, bundled into bales, have accumulated here since October. Each week, more streams in by the truckload.
Boxes and wrapping paper tossed into the recycling bin during the holidays typically are turned into pulp for tissues, cereal boxes, construction material, or cardboard packaging. But the recession has hit recycling companies hard in recent months by driving down demand and prices for their materials, and the results can be seen at this North Shore Recycled Fibers plant: Less paper is getting recycled and more is piling up.
"It's not a healthy situation," said Johnny Gold, head of the recycled fibers division for the Newark Group, which owns this sorting facility and 12 others across the country, including one in Webster and one in North Andover.
At a time when every dollar counts, municipalities strapped for cash are receiving thousands less than usual per month for recycled paper and cardboard. The decline in revenue, however, does not pose a risk of ending recycling programs in New England cities; companies are obligated by contracts to keep picking up paper and are prohibited by state law from putting it into landfills after picking it up.
The heaps of paper are a vivid example of how industries and economies in disparate places rely on one another, and show how global market forces can hamstring environmental efforts.
Which tells you what is REALLY IMPORTANT when the rubber hits the road!!! The ELITES KNOW that GLOBAL WARMING is a FRAUD, folks!!! It is all to get you a CARBON TAX, and if RECYCLING will sell it to you, well.... Btw, I am FOR RECYCLING as much as possible -- as long as it is USED AS LOCALLY as POSSIBLE!!!
Since 2000, increasing amounts of recycled paper have been exported as manufacturing has grown in Asia and as paper mills have closed in the United States.
Oh, now WAIT a MINUTE!!! The GOOD DEED RECYCLING is a GLOBALISTS DREAM? And how does SHIPPING SHIT to CHINA (and back) HELP the ENVIRONMENT!!!!????
Until October, more than a third of the country's recycled paper was sent abroad. The vast majority was loaded onto tankers headed to China, where mills turn it into corrugated cardboard boxes often used to package televisions and stereos before they are shipped back to the United States. With the economic downturn, fewer people are buying products that require these boxes, and the export market for recycled paper has almost completely dried up....
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Most cities and towns have long-term contracts with recycling companies; many of those deals have floor prices and agreements for minimum purchases. The cost of landfilling or incinerating waste, at least in New England, is too high to make recycling seem like a bad idea financially: Even if cities and towns had to pay for their paper to be recycled, officials from several Massachusetts municipalities said it would be cheaper than throwing away that paper as waste....
Even though recycling collections will probably continue, the plunge in demand means that not all old paper will be recycled into new paper products in the near future. "You don't recycle when you place something in a bin," said Steve Changaris, the Northeast regional manager for the National Solid Wastes Management Association. "You recycle when a business or manufacturer uses that material."
And Americans feel so good and self-righteous about recycling, too!!!
But some leaders in the recycled paper industry remain optimistic about finding buyers for the bales of used paper and cardboard accumulating in warehouses. They predict that in a year, if not sooner, demand for recycled products will rebound. Some have seen recycled paper prices drop in the past and recover. Others think that domestic mills, still making tissue fiber and paperboard for packaging such products as cereal and pizza, could eventually pick up the slack in foreign demand.
Yeah, right, OVERPRICED CEREALS and PIZZAS are gonna save the U.S. recycling industry. How you gonna PAY for that PIZZA, Amurkn (with shit topping)?
