Perhaps they'll raise taxes to recover the losses.
You ain’t see nuthin’ yet!
Where I live all residences receive recycling bins. There is a long list of things that one CANNOT put in the bins. Among those on the list is plastic!
The patients are running the asylum!
Everything government touches turns to crap. Let the market dictate recycling.
When I use tap water to rinse out the bottom of the popcan so the recycle bin doesn’t get sticky, do I waste more than I save?
My first trip to California, I was shocked at the stench in a rest area ... composting toilets. I actually like California, despise what has happened to it politically, though.
There really is no tangible market for recycled materials. Most (>90%) ends up in a landfill as a result. But, it makes tree huggers feel superior.
Surprise, Californians!
This is a TAX and a revenue steam for Moon Beam and his crew...enjoy!
plus you burn a lot of gasoline and rubber up.... driving your $2.78 of bottles to the recycle centre
Whatever doesn’t burn in my barrel gets put in someones dumpster.
I only have about 1-2 plastic grocery bags/mo of glass and cans to get rid of.
Yet we are still charged 5 cents per can which we are supposed to get back when we take our cans to the
non existent
recycling center.
They take a nickel and pay .003 back.
They want you to donate it to the blue can.
ha ha recycling has to be subsidized, so obviously it makes perfect economic sense to libtards.
Why are the libtards not running the recycljng centers out of the goodness of their hearts and all their positive vibes?
Do they only care about the money? Is that what it boils down to for them? They really want to put a price on the future of our children? Its just too much to save the earth?
They demand and guilt and picket other people to run stuff at losses to save the planet for them. They on the other hand, will shut down when it cuts into their bottom line.
This on top fo the fct they demanded all this recycling in the first place.
Can’t the recycling plants be run by windmills and solar panels?
The bigger part of this is not the low prices for recyclables but that the state is taking deposits on materials they never return the deposits on. Let a private business try that.
Waste Management here in Oakland has a minimum charge of $47 per carload to drop stuff off. That’s why there is so much trash dumped onto the street.
BS. I personally know a manager for one of the recycling companies in downtown L.A. There is almost NO cost to acquire the goods such as aluminum due to the huge number of people willing to collect it such as bums and illegals.
The real problem is the state and city fudge the numbers and they already decreased the returns to the companies while raising taxes at the same time.
Anyone remember how you pay 10 CENTS per paper or plastic bag in L.A.? If that’s another cash flow for ‘recycling’, then why is there still a decrease in returns for the recycling process?
And I’ll tell you what. The CRV is actually a “deposit” that buyers can get back IF you return it to the city or state. It is not actually a recycling fee. This was explained by a retired state recycling officer.
What a pair of horribly written paragraphs. AP and others continue to hire these green J-school majors who have been taught to substitute opinion for fact and lard up their writing with weasel words and virtue signaling.