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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by monort on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:13AM (#17416997)
Maybe it depends on the city, but often it's a municipal government granted monopoly. E.g. in San Francisco it's Recology.

https://www.aoausa.com/magazine/?p=4982

I bet, each city, that enforces waste sorting, has a monopoly.

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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by Firadeoclus on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:32AM (#17424719)
Sorry, I should have been clearer. What I meant is a sorting service, not a collection service.
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