8380/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times
Waste traveling along a conveyor belt to be sorted. Wiqan Ang for The New York Times
Mr. Bell, the Waste Management executive, said he had seen everything from Christmas lights to
animal carcasses to artillery shells come through the company’s recycling facilities. “Most of our
facilities get a bowling ball every day or two,” he said.
30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times
Wigan Ang for The New York Times
Mr. Spendelow said companies in rural areas, which tend to have higher expenses to get their
materials to market, were being hit particularly hard. “They’re literally taking trucks straight to
the landfill,” he said.
50/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times
Americans recycle roughly 66 million tons of material each year, according to the most recent
figures from the Environmental Protection Agency, about one-third of which is exported. The
majority of those exports once went to China, said David Biderman, the executive director of the
Solid Waste Association of North America, a research and advocacy group.
$/30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times
Other communities, like Grants Pass, Ore., home to about 37,000 people, are continuing to
encourage their residents to recycle as usual, but the materials are winding up in landfills anyway.
Local waste managers said they were concerned that if they told residents to stop recycling, it
could be hard to get them to start again.
5/30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times
In the Pacific Northwest, Republic has diverted more than 2,000 tons of paper to landfills since the
Chinese ban came into effect, Mr. Keller said. The company has been unable to move that material
to a market “at any price or cost,’ he said. Though Republic is dumping only a small portion of its
total inventory so far — the company handles over five million tons of recyclables nationwide
each year — it sent little to no paper to landfills last year.
5/30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times
Ehe New York Cimes
Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right?
Maybe, or Maybe Not
Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills
after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.”
By Livia Albeck-Ripka
May 29, 2018
THE CITY OF NASHUA
Office of the Mavor
To: Board of Aldermen
¥rom: Mayor Jim Donchess
Cc: Kim Kleiner
Date: May 31, 2018
Re: Recycling costs
"The Gate City"
Board of Aldermen members,
I have attached an article from The New York Times that illustrates the recycling problem our
country is facing.
AMENDED
ORDINANCE O-18-012
€q\(0) Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.
*(p) Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259500.”
All other ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall become effective 30 days after passage.
AMENDED
ORDINANCE
(2)
90)
@(k)
O-18-012
Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.
Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259275.
Commercial plumbing (including Multi-Family).
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.
AMENDED
ORDINANCE
(0)
(p)
(q)
(r)
O-18-012
Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.
Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5975.
Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259500.
Annual permit fee: $465250.
