We’re recycling but garbage keeps piling up: What you may not know about the recycling industry.
When Chip Britting celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970, the then-teenager saw recycling as a promising industry and went on to create a community-led recycling center in Phelps, New York with his teacher. Now, 50 years later, some are calling the efficacy of recycling into question as landfills keep growing with items people put into blue and green bins.
But if there is no market for the recyclable goods, said Britting, then those materials go to landfills. As a result, some industry officials, like David Biderman, the executive director and CEO of the Solid Waste Association of North America believe landfill rates are rising. The majority of curbside recycling in the United States is single stream, said Robin Wiener, president of ISRI. Recyclables go into one bin, get collected and then transported to a Material Recovery Facility . The items are then sorted by commodity type and processed for future use.
In addition, the price to recycle glass often trumps market value, leading to lost profits for recycling centers. In Hamilton, Montana, facilities no longer accept the material. “If people get the wrong plastic in the bin, that material becomes trash,” Dianna Robinson, a materials manager at The Montana Department of Environmental Quality said.
Closing recycling centers are particularly problematic in rural areas where facilities can be broadly spread out.
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