It’s easy to pop a single-use water bottle in the bin and expect that it will be recycled locally. Southeast Asia says ‘enough’ to our stuff Planet Detroit sifted through to learn what effect this market depression is likely to have on recycling in your own community. Some cities are scaling back, others are ramping up, and everyone is paying more to move cardboard, paper, yogurt containers, milk jugs, and everything else that ends up in the recycling bin to the materials recovery facility, or MRF (rhymes with “Smurf”), where it’s processed and sold, eventually to become something new.īut the market for recyclable materials is at a nine-year low, according to SOCRRA, and some materials just aren’t as valuable as they once were. Or Westland, where residents are encouraged to separate their recyclables from their trash before both are hauled straight to the landfill.Īcross metro Detroit, recycling, that everyday environmentally-friendly practice we all know and love, is changing. It’s a good thing for Wiswell that she doesn’t live in Harper Woods, where recycling was discontinued on June 30. “Drives me nuts to see containers in the trash!” she says. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.Joyce Wiswell calls herself a “fanatical recycler.” She picks through her kitchen garbage to rescue containers her husband has casually tossed and meticulously cleans them for the single stream recycling bin she and her Royal Oak neighbors received as one of the 12 member communities serviced by recycling authority SOCRRA. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well.
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