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Originally Posted by Descant
Not so many years ago, recycling was a money maker, or at least, a break even. The buyers of paper (China?) wanted cleaner paper and sorting newsprint, colored wrapping paper, packaging, etc was costly. Cardboard with oil stains from pizza was unacceptable. The list goes on. Running a recycled/transfer station isn't the cheap, or even profitable operation that it was in 1998.
Nevertheless, trash disposal for decades and decades was "free" (the government pays for it) so a $20 fee seems like a lot. On the positive side, if you have a dump sticker and a heavy foot, when you get stopped, the PD knows before asking for registration, that you are a local. Important in some towns.
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The government doesn't pay for anything, tax payers do, since trash was previously covered, it's a little galling have to pay twice now.
I've heard it said that many things in the recycle stream end up in the land fill or the incinerator. If true, we should stop the charade, and start throwing that stuff in the trash.