The company i work for phased out cardboard recycling last year. We were taking an awful beating with it. Best guess is that we were spending 20 dollars in labor to get one dollar back on the sale of cardboard.
Green is all good and well but it has to be self sustaining from a money point of view.
Ewaste appears to be taking a beating here. It was subsidized by state government for a number of years. The idea was that you document the piece of electronic gear and then bill the state for reasonable disposal cost. In turn ... the state bills the manufacturer for an end of life fee.
Yeah ... it's not to hard to imagine how that all worked out.
The state pulled a Sneaky Pete and changed the law last year. They made the recycler responsible for billing the manufacturer an end of life fee directly. The Ewaste company that did a great job of servicing this area of the state withdrew shortly after the change in the law and we were more or less left to figure it out for ourselves.
We do have a new waste to energy plant in the works.It was scheduled for completion sometime this summer so it may already be on-line by now.
There's a fairly good article on what we have, and what we're transitioning to here.
https://www.mainepublic.org/post/ope...aste-landfills
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