At the time when newsprint prices had extremely dropped to where it was a lot
cheaper to landfill rather than recycle I'm pretty sure they decided that
newspapers which were placed out for curbside recycling here (Lancaster, PA)
would be acceptable to go to the resource recovery (waste-to-energy
incenerator) facility. However, this isn't normally the case.
In a message dated 07/15/2000 1:59:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ScD18@WasteReductionRemedies.com writes:
> Does anyone have any information on which States or whoever count
> incineration
> as recycling or recovery when calculating their recycling rate? Also do
> you
> know how they calculate it? ( as reuse of ash or as energy recovery or
> however?)
>
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