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Recycling: Maybe we could learn something from Sweden Ever rising cost of disposal in a landfill makes recycling, regardless of revenue gains from sales of recycled material, a fiscal positive Click on headline for complete commentary By George Kolbenschlag Just perhaps we could learn a bit about recycling from Sweden. I was talking with a very personable Swedish student at Lindsey Friday evening and learned that 99% of refuse in Sweden is recycled. Only 1% goes into landfills. In this country in 2012 we recycled about 34%. Some argue that a cost of recycling is too great. I looked a little further and learned that more recent studies and experiences show that in many instances when the revenue generated by recycling is compared against the ever rising costs of disposal in a landfill, recycling results in a positive revenue gain. And that is only dollar costs. The long-range costs of landfills to a community are harder to measure. For example what is the impact of the release of methane from decomposing garbage in our landfills? How about the the contamination of ground water and waterways. How about the aesthetics of garbage disposal. Do we really want that in our back yards? Some towns, cities and counties in our country do not, and have posed mandatory recycling. Maybe we could learn something from them and from Sweden. --George Kolbenschlag < This story was posted on 2016-08-14 21:29:59
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