New York's recyclers, still reeling from China's waste import ban, look set to take another hit with the expansion of the bottle bill
for New York’s bottle bill, which imposes a refundable nickel deposit on bottles and cans of water, soda and beer. He and his wife earn about $500 a week by collecting empties from recycling bins, bars and restaurants in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which they trade for money at a local redemption centre. Their jangling cart is among the many that helped the state recycle over 5bn drinks containers in 2016.
Most municipal recycling programmes work because the costs of collecting and sorting recyclables are largely offset by the value of these materials on commodity markets. But China, once the leading buyer of America’s recyclables, upended these markets last year by banning most waste imports. Prices for scrap paper, cardboard and plastic have plunged. Recycling companies that once turned a tidy profit are now losing money and sending material to landfills.
plastic, away from kerbside bins to a separate system run primarily by beverage manufacturers and distributors. This not only creates inefficiencies , but also shrinks revenues for recycling companies left with less valuable materials., which has a long-term contract to process all the metal, glass and plastic collected by New York City’s sanitation department, says New York’s current bill, introduced in 1982, already cuts the value of every tonne of materialreceives by $15-30.
Instead of putting a bounty on materials that recycling companies need to stay afloat, Eric Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defence Council, a conservation group, recommends placing redemption values on things that are difficult to recycle, such as more glass , batteries, paints and carpets. Collecting these materials will not be easy, but at least it will spare local recycling operators a financial headache.
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