When households throw our garbage to the recycled bins, the local council pick up and send to the recycling center where the stuff get sorted. The recycling company will buy the sorted and baled products, where they will do further processing. Then what happens after that? Who buys from the recycling company ?
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February 8th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Let’s see, you pay the local council who pays a contractor to pick up the recyclables, who then pays the recycling centre to accept the recyclables. The recycling centre may or may not recoup some of their costs from reselling the sorted and baled products and would pay a landfill to take whatever they can’t resell. Their business model doesn’t rely on actually recycling anything. Sometimes, smelters will buy the aluminum if aluminum prices are high. Sometimes, plastic soda bottles will be purchased to make insulation and sometimes paper and cardboard will be bought to add to the wood pulp for low quality paper products like newsprint (can’t recycle too much cause the fibers get smaller each time).
Recycling does make for neat and tidy landfills with all the aluminum cans bunched, plastic bottles and paper in separate piles.