Dave:

Here in San Jose, CA everything gets recycled (and I have to pay for
that privilege with my garbage bill). We toss all plastics and glass and
paper and metals into a single bin that is collected weekly. What they
do with it is anyone's guess.  I doubt they are making money from it
(i.e. making a profit) otherwise it would pay for itself and not have to
be subsidized by the city residents.

Chuck

MA/NY DDave wrote:

>Hi Chuck, ENViro Listservers,
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>Oh Well thought of something else on re-reading my note.
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>I do not want to degrade all of MAss.
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>MAss and Recycling is quite variable. Where I live now, this large local
>community can not figure out how to recycle various grades of plastic
>(hydrocarbon polymers). In other areas of MAss they recycle all plastics. I
>have a good laugh on that one based on category <7> other, like SAN and
>such, since if it isn't labelled they can't figure it is other and must
>discard it.
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>So my wife takes the stuff we can't recycle here, to work and transfers it
>to another MA community that makes money off our waste.
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>Yours in Engineering, Dave
>YiEngr, MA/NY DDave
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