The Bottom Falls Out of the Recycling Market

Ir recycling weren't state law, I believe that it would be dead.

According to the article, here's how bad prices for recyclable materials have fallen in just the past three months:

Cardboard -- from $100 a ton to $5 a ton.

PET plastics, used for things like soda bottles -- from $330 a ton to $200 a ton.

Newspapers -- from $165 a ton to $25 a ton.

Tin cans -- from $150 a ton to $5 a ton.

HDPE plastic, a thicker, higher-density plastic used for things like detergent bottles -- $830 a ton to $255 a ton.

Source: Housatonic Resource Recovery Authority

So much for lobbying to get Polypropylene (#5) added to the mix.

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