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    mike1 is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeinreco View Post
    I can't believe you can still dig thru the landfill....they would arrest you here
    They shouldn't I mean it's junk that really shouldn't be there in the first place it's bad to bury things everything should be recycled�� if everyone recycled there really wouldn't be any trash except for food stuff.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mike1 View Post
    They shouldn't I mean it's junk that really shouldn't be there in the first place it's bad to bury things everything should be recycled�� if everyone recycled there really wouldn't be any trash except for food stuff.
    It's complicated Mike. It costs us about 4 times more a ton to recycle plastics & cardboard than to just put them in with the trash.

    Most of our trash gets trucked to his huge incinerator plant and gets burned. The heat from the fire is used to make electricity.

    Food waste is interesting stuff. We get a lot of crab waste at our Transfer Station. Fishermen catch the crabs and sell them to crab pickers who pick out and sell the crabmeat. We started a program where the crab pickers put their shells in a special bin last year. The bins are emptied and the shells get composted. It's working really well so far.

    I'm looking to get us into collecting food waste for composting next. Most are in agreement that it's what we want to do. We just have to iron out the details of where the collection bins will be placed.

    Anyhow ... Alloy did mention that the province is looking to close it's landfills. We started closing ours here in Maine about 35 years ago. Most cities and towns have a transfer station instead of a landfill now. Most charge a fee for the different things you bring in. A large bag of trash might cost $ 4.00 to dispose of.

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