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Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. by TWO

Plastic and Glass. This article says that currently recycling of plastics and glass is not the best option, that landfills are a better option. At least for now. A big part of the reason is that we used to ship this stuff to China, but they won't take it anymore and that is driving up the cost, an example was that one city could sell their recyclable stuff to China for $6 a ton, now they are paying 125$ a ton to recycle it.

This article claims Landfills for plastics and glass are the way to go. Recycling metal is still good, soup cans, whatever.
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Moreover, landfilling waste is not the evil many assume it to be. Modern landfills in the developed world are highly regulated, with sophisticated systems to protect groundwater, methods of compacting trash as tightly as possible, and even ways of siphoning off methane gas and burning it to produce electricity. Despite the myth that we're running out of landfill space, current estimates indicate that the U.S. has about 58 years until we need to build additional facilities.

As Kinnaman discovered in a 2014 study – a complete life cycle analysis of the recycling process