Posted on Jun 5, 2022
How America’s Recycling Program Failed—and Scarred the Environment | Jon Miltimore
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In March 2019, The New York Times ran a shocking story exploring why many prominent US cities were abandoning their recycling programs.
“Philadelphia is now burning about half of its 1.5 million residents’ recycling material in an incinerator that converts waste to energy,” Times business writer Michael Corkery reported. “In Memphis, the international airport still has recycling bins around the terminals, but every collected can, bottle and newspaper is sent to a landfill.”
In March 2019, The New York Times ran a shocking story exploring why many prominent US cities were abandoning their recycling programs.
“Philadelphia is now burning about half of its 1.5 million residents’ recycling material in an incinerator that converts waste to energy,” Times business writer Michael Corkery reported. “In Memphis, the international airport still has recycling bins around the terminals, but every collected can, bottle and newspaper is sent to a landfill.”
Recycling
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I take my aluminum cans that have no deposit on them to the local scrap metal dealer, a lot of people around me send their recyclable materials to the local landfill, they have no time supposedly to take to a regular recycling site Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Lt Col Charlie Brown Same thing they did here in Tennessee. Recycle bins ended up going to the landfills except metal.
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