As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by nullc on Saturday March 16, 2019 @06:48PM (#19410885)

The recycling locations also significantly underpay CRV in my experience: if you show up with more than a small amount (I think the threshold is about 40 items) they'll only "pay by weight" at a rate that seems to be maybe half of the per item CRV (based on a single time I bothered to count it out in advance).

Going more frequently with smaller amounts would pay more but waste more time... and I estimated that it didn't make sense to do so unless you valued the cost of the trip at less than about $1.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by mistrial9 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @08:53PM (#19411454)

almost every rung of the recycling ladder is beset by small cheating like this.. second note is, many, many honest recyclers simply die economically after some amount of hardship, depending on the setup

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