A few interesting insights came out of the presentation by the city's reycling program at Thursday's Sustainability Commission meeting. Number one, due to the regulations Jackson County has imposed at the landfill the city uses, the city has to have a recycling program in place. Two, due to the recession which has hurt the price paid for recyclable products such as cardboard, plasitic, aluminum etc. , teh city loses money on recycling.
Third, apartment dwellers help subsidize the recycling program for the rest of the city as the city doesn't pick up recyclables from apartments of 5 or more units but adds the recycling fee to their water/sewer bill. Finally, due to fuel price increases, the city expects to break even on recycling by the end of this fiscal year. It is much cheaper to haul stuff to Southern Recycling than the 20 miles out to the county dump.
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