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As City Budgets Shrink, It's Time to Rethink Recycling Programs

Instead of relying on impractical edicts from politicians, and the costly labor of municipal employees who gather a jumble of mostly worthless material that needs to be sorted, let the market determine what’s worth recycling, and let private operators figure out how to collect it efficiently.

As City Budgets Shrink, It's Time to Rethink Recycling Programs
Aluminium drink cans at the SUEZ recycling facility in Birmingham, UK, photographed by Scott Macpherson in 2017.

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