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Posted Wed Dec 10 2008: from New York Times:
Back at Junk Value, Recyclables Are Piling Up http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1228927144
The economic downturn has decimated the market for recycled materials like cardboard, plastic, newspaper and metals. Across the country, this junk is accumulating by the ton in the yards and warehouses of recycling contractors, which are unable to find buyers or are unwilling to sell at rock-bottom prices. Ordinarily the material would be turned into products like car parts, book covers and boxes for electronics. But with the slump in the scrap market, a trickle is starting to head for landfills instead of a second life. "It's awful," said Briana Sternberg, education and outreach coordinator for Sedona Recycles, a nonprofit group in Arizona that recently stopped taking certain types of cardboard... "Either it goes to landfill or it begins to cost us money," Ms. Sternberg said.
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