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[phanatic]

This story from Wisconsin demonstrates what a joke recycling programs are:

For April Little, village administrator in Belleville, the potential loss of $18,482 to help run the village's $46,155 recycling program means dramatic cuts will likely be necessary--less material recycled and more waste into landfills

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Technology and Economics compete with spurious applications of both

[capybyra]

We "can" efficiently and cheaply recycle percent X of many Consumer Items. It's why we won't/don't that bears examination. Some of it is common sense. Other parts are made of pure fail. Bags of CRUSHED cans as you said- makes sense. Same with bales of Cardboard or compacted, clean Office document paper. See Batliner Paper in KcMo about that one

[zarex]

Penn & Teller have an excellent Bullshit! segment on this.