[greenyes] Commercial Recycling Franchising

["Peter Anderson" <anderson@no.address>]

Megan from Boise asks is it is desirable for the city to extend BFI's 
existing franchise for commercial trash to include recycling.

We wrote an article that was published in the June 2001 issue of MSW 
Management that analyzes the structure of the large waste companies to 
evaluate whether they can be relied upon to constructively implement 
recycling programs. You can find it on the web at: 
http://competitivewaste.org/reports/CCWRecyclingConsolidation1.PDF.

In summary, we found that the economic forces operating on the waste 
industry will strongly tend to be in opposition to successful and expanding 
recycling efforts.

It is important that cities consider these underlying financial pressures 
when considering franchising recycling to the major trash companies if they 
wish to achieve the diversion goals into the future.

                                                                             
Peter

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Peter Anderson,  Executive Director
CENTER FOR A COMPETITIVE
   WASTE INDUSTRY
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