Cities and counties come to grips with the high cost of recycling programs

June 26, 2015

This article focuses on contamination issues and problems that have developed because of single stream recycling where all recyclables are kept separate from garbage. Dirty MRFs would further exacerbate this problem by mixing recyclables with municipal waste providing complete contamination. The resulting material would be virtually useless.

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