Warehousing Garbage


From DailyMail:

Bale after bale of waste paper sits unwanted at a depot in the south of England.

It is a sight being repeated all over the country because the market for all the paper and card so carefully put aside by households has collapsed.

In fact, the country’s mountain of such waste, growing at a rate of 8,300 tons a week, is costing taxpayers millions of pounds because the private firms contracted by councils to collect and dispose of it are now charging them to store it.

The bottom line is always the bottom line. When the cost to recycle exceeds the price returned on sale of recycled products, the public's wallets must be rifled. And it's customary, not unusual.

Be advised that virtually every recycling scheme has to be propped up with public funding.