Monday, January 5, 2009

Will your town stop taking your recycling soon?

For quite a while, recycling programs have been money-makers for municipalities. Old newspapers, plastic, and glass were mostly shipped to China, who had a huge appetite for the stuff. With the rotten economy, the bottom has officially fallen out of the recycling market. There's no demand now, and city trash collection agencies are losing money by picking up your recycling. It shouldn't be too soon, now, before recycling programs are phased out by some municipalities...