Since traditional print news media are superior to bloggers in the nuts-and-bolts reporting where phones have to be picked up and leads followed, and since I don’t have much shoeleather or rollover minutes to spare, I thought I’d propose a great story idea to some enterprising investigative reporter: track what actually happens to the materials we put out on the curb for recycling. Surely they’re not all reaching useful post-consumer product, are they? And how do they separate different materials, not to mention the non-recyclable matter that must work its way into the pile? The cynic in me suspects that it’s all for show, but I’d love to be proven wrong.
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