Is Legislation Trumping Doing the Right Thing? by admin | Jun 22, 2012 | Recycling Matters | 0 comments In a recent article of Resource Recycling, Canada’s Paper Industry is calling for a landfill ban on boxes even with an 87 percent recovery rate of occ. “Even though the council is calling for the landfill ban, no one expects the recovery rate to change overnight. “We suspect that, at first, more OCC is likely to flow south to the U.S., which has lower landfill fees,” says Mullinder. However, “before long, waste haulers will have to factor in the increased energy costs of shipping that OCC those greater distances, and then hopefully decide to ship them to an Ontario or Quebec recycling mill instead. Maybe a provincial ban together with a shipping-to-landfill charge at a transfer station is the answer.” So is this an idea that the US should look into? Would this work in rural areas where landfill charges are so low, their megatropolis neighbors are hauling waste to them and avoiding costs to increase landfills not to mention all the NIMBY naysayers. Are we promoting waste by making it cheaper to dump? Would raising landfill rates help the small towns raise funds for budget shortfalls? Recycling is already mandated and part of our legislative rules. Would an outright ban be necessary? Would waste haulers start going south to dump? Recycling is the right thing to do and generally there are programs available that make it easy. Can rules and regulations increase recycling and force us to do the right thing? Share your ideas. cigarettes Submit a CommentYou must be logged in to post a comment. Recent Posts Go Green For Back to School Recycle, Reduce, Reuse Recycling and Upcycling = Zero Waste Don’t have time for Recycling. Not true. Is Paper Disposal Really Reducing? Search for:
