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A comment on Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It. Parent comment

Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by tclancy on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:59PM (#21855086)
Or recyclables.
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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by maxerickson on Sunday December 22, 2019 @11:18AM (#21857962)
There are places that run their entire waste stream through a recovery plant:

http://waste-technology.co.uk/what-is-a-dirty-mrf-and-why-th...

A substantial portion of the waste stream is just organic material (which is worth very little).

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