Is recycling collapsing in California? Advocates call on lawmakers to rescue it
at its remaining 284 California locations earlier this month, alarm bells went up among recycling advocates. The recycling chain cited a reduction in state subsidies, reduced prices for aluminum and plastic and rising operating costs as the reason for shutting its doors. The closure of the largest recycling center in California is a symptom of a much larger problem facing the Golden State, argues Martin Bourque, of the Ecology Center, a Berkeley-based nonprofit. “The paradigm of using disposable packaging for everything, and then ‘recycling ...
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