I know that notifications are not comprehensive, but I have been checking on fewer and fewer threads while I try to focus on projects, and I have received fewer and fewer notifications. I happened to read something in the newspaper I thought I would share here and the last e-mail I received about this thread was a week ago. Little did I know there have been twenty-five posts since then.
I am still replacing my timing belt!
I skimmed...
Anyway, China is the largest purchaser of recyclables, but Arizonans have been mixing more and more garbage with their recycling. Fewer places are purchasing recyclables and cities need to hire more people to sort out garbage, so it is becoming unprofitable--if they can even find a purchaser.
Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the U.S. and can work with large companies that find consumers, but the other cities cannot. They keep talking about poor Flagstaff, which is apparently not filled with hippies, despite every appearance to the contrary.
Phoenix has sent over 200,000 tons of contaminated recycling to the dump. Smaller cities sometimes do the same with clean recycling when they cannot find a buyer. China now demands that recyclables be 99.5% pure and nobody can meet that standard.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...mpe/752442002/
In an opinion piece I found when I was looking up that above article states:
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[A] city ordinance prohibits municipal recycling at apartment complexes[...]. A 2015 Arizona law actually outright bans any requirement for Valley cities to offer service at multifamily residences.
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https://www.azcentral.com/story/opin...bly/761822002/
Was that sponsored by dump magnates or something? Landfill barons exist, right?