Recycling: where's it going?

[RecycleMichael]

I think you are jumping a step. Just because you live in an multi-family living unit doesn't mean you can't recycle.

Your beef should be with your landlord, not with me.

The apartment owners in this town don't offer recycling because they don't think their tenants care. I have met with officials with Lincoln Properties and Case and Associates, as well as smaller landlords and I soon as I say it is going to cost a few dollars per month per unit, the conversation ends. I don't understand. The retirement communities like Inverness Village have great recycling programs because they know it is a selling point for new tenants.

I feel the same way about shopping centers in Tulsa. Malls and strip centers across America have good recycling programs, but they are rare around here. I don't understand.

[joiei]

It is possible to get a recycling program in multiunit locations.  We were able to get recycling introduced at the Yorktown Condos after much pressuring the board and the administration.  Because it was considered a commercial account we had to go with a company that was not the city.   The program is very successful in a building that houses mostly older home owners.  What it took was for one of the residents to go through the Master Recycler program. 

[guido911]

Anyone else getting fed up with this recycling nonsense?


ducking, donning Kevlar..

[Conan71]

Anyone else getting fed up with this recycling nonsense?


ducking, donning Kevlar..

It's a passing fad.  Sooner or later they will let us all cut up our recycle bins and toss them in the trash.

[shadows]

It's a passing fad.  Sooner or later they will let us all cut up our recycle bins and toss them in the trash.

Just stand fast.  The wage scale of the American worker and the broadening gap between the haves and have-nots where the majority of the created jobs are government jobs that increase the average wage by inflation makes the virgin materials cheaper.  Used in production recycling material prices have been driven up by China and are not vulnerable to inflation as we know it.  Government is getting ready to dump 40 billion unsecured dollars PER MONTH in out faulting economy.  We are able to buy finished products (which we do on credit and not pay) for less than recycled products cost.  The only thing we have an edge on is recycling bathroom tissue.  Like Japan they have built their first aircraft carrier out of our recycled vehicles.

Type in your search engine"RECESSION 2013 PREDICTIONS" and read what experts of government and private sectors are saying regardless of who is president.     

[nathanm]

Anyone else getting fed up with this recycling nonsense?

No, I'm quite happy to be able to get rid of my cardboard and other recyclables that were not previously accepted in the green bin in a SWMBO-approved manner that doesn't involve driving to another city.

[nathanm]

Type in your search engine"RECESSION 2013 PREDICTIONS" and read what experts of government and private sectors are saying regardless of who is president.

Absent the fiscal cliff scenario arriving unaltered or China or Europe really going off the cliff instead of having only mildly recessionary economies, recession here in the US is unlikely. If we do end up cutting that much out of the federal budget, hold onto your butt. It's not a coincidence that as soon as state/local spending cuts and firings eased off domestic economic indicators improved to basically being all at least weakly positive. Federal cuts (or tax increases not matched by spending increases, for that matter) really should wait until private sector deleveraging is complete, which will likely take another year or two barring a very significant stimulus that increases income across the board.

[shadows]

QUOTE:
While about 70% of the U.S. economy emanates from service-based sectors such as restaurants and tourism, those are not the positions that sustain a world-class economy.
These are not recent concerns.
U.S. job creation began to slow down around 2000. That is when the great decline in manufacturing employment started.......................................

These dismal signs of low quality job growth and lower salaries make Recession 2013 seem like a certainty.
Written By Jonathan Yates From Money Morning
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This reflects that our GNP is eatables called fats.  With 200 years of proudly being rated for our industrial world trade seems to have reached the point of ancient Carthage when their city/state was sacked by Rome and the land was sown with salt.  The clouds again of an approaching mortal storm on the horizon as we stand on the edge of the cliff.  In the meanwhile the recyclables with cheaper labor can be produced and flood our markets and we cannot compete in a balance of trade. 

[RecycleMichael]

You sure are one confused mofo.

The number one export item from the U.S. to China is recovered paper.

They buy from us.

[shadows]

You sure are one confused mofo.

The number one export item from the U.S. to China is recovered paper.

They buy from us.

That is a strange fact as China was the inventor of paper.  It is assumed that we pay them to use their manufacturing process. 

[Teatownclown]

You sure are one confused mofo.

The number one export item from the U.S. to China is recovered paper.

They buy from us.

What do they know that we don't?

[nathanm]

What do they know that we don't?

The difference in population, apparently.

[Teatownclown]

The difference in population, apparently.

If it's a commodity, someone needs to let The Chamber know...maybe they can arrange for a replacement tenant for the Airport in case the Vision thingy fails and American makes the mistake of leaving.

[heironymouspasparagus]

The really big opportunities in recycling are being completely ignored for now...think "Soylent Green".

[Gaspar]

Well, the answer is that it's not going anywhere yet.  They haven't finished the improvements to the line at MURPH necessary to process mixed materials.  They are apparently a couple of weeks out, so it's just piling up.