From the Washington Post..."Once a profitable business for cities and private employers alike, recycling in recent years has become a money-sucking enterprise. The District, Baltimore and many counties in between are contributing millions annually to prop up one of the nation’s busiest facilities here in Elkridge, Md. — but it is still losing money. In fact, almost every facility like it in the country is running in the red. And Waste Management and other recyclers say that more than 2,000 municipalities are paying to dispose of their recyclables instead of the other way around."
Lower oil prices, lower demand for recycled materials, poor recycling habits (wrong items, unclean items) driving up the cost of the programs, all have contributed to huge economic losses in the recycling industry.
Read the article. It's time for us to figure this out before we are buried in out own detritus.
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