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Jun 19, 2019
7:41:43pm

Acorn All-American

For you economists out there...

The perfect economic cycle predictor - landfill volume. You see it drop before there are any reports of an economic downturn, and see it start increasing long before anyone is optimistic about a recovery. It is pretty amazing when you can see the data.

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Acorn

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Time

How effective/efficient are municipal residential recycling programs?

kccougar All-American

6/19/19 7:06pm

Not very efficient. Mostly because people recycle

cougarfann888

6/19/19 7:08pm

True to an extent, although with China refusing to take recycling

cracka

6/19/19 7:17pm

The problem was that China would accept almost anything. Totally contaminated

Acorn

6/19/19 7:45pm

I'm sure innovation and changes in approach will bring the costs down over time

cracka

6/19/19 7:52pm

It is cheaper to just dump it in the landfill. Always has been.

Acorn

6/19/19 8:00pm

One of those things to make people feel good but don’t have the desired results

Zedhead

6/19/19 7:10pm

100% correct. By and large, scam so politicians can claim to

BR549

6/19/19 7:25pm

I guess you have to ask yourself if mummifying your garbage

Acorn

6/19/19 7:55pm

I worked in the garbage/recycling industry for about 20 years

Acorn

6/19/19 7:35pm

For you economists out there...

Acorn

6/19/19 7:41pm

Sometimes when we would make our annual volume forecasts at the landfill

Acorn

6/19/19 7:50pm

As you know I represent some waste disposal companies. I can 100% verify that

BYUMizzou

6/20/19 9:35am

There needs to be some way to gamify recycling.

greatbam

6/20/19 8:38am

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