{"id":167,"date":"2009-03-31T05:39:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T05:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/environment\/recyclers-in-a-heap-of-trouble\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T05:41:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T05:41:37","slug":"recyclers-in-a-heap-of-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/environment\/recyclers-in-a-heap-of-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Recyclers in a heap of trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span id=\"redesign_default\">Demand for materials decreases as supply keeps climbing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White signs on sides of Denver&#8217;s curbside recycling pick-up vehicles declare: &#8220;Recycling. It&#8217;s easier than ever.&#8221; But today recyclers say it&#8217;s increasingly difficult to move mounting heaps of plastics, cardboard, bottles and newspaper that Denver residents enthusiastically stuff into purple bins.<\/p>\n<p>The problem: The ultimate end-users of recycled material \u2014 largely factories in Asia \u2014 aren&#8217;t buying as much as they did when the global economy was growing. Prices paid to recyclers, which once topped $150 a ton, plunged by 70 percent last fall and have stayed relatively low. That leaves recycling plants, such as Waste Management Inc.&#8217;s single-stream facility in Denver, struggling to get rid of the heaps. &#8220;Right now, there&#8217;s an imbalance,&#8221; said Chuck Schmidt, Waste Management&#8217;s director of recycling for 11 Western states and part of Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_12033413\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for materials decreases as supply keeps climbing White signs on sides of Denver&#8217;s curbside recycling pick-up vehicles declare: &#8220;Recycling. It&#8217;s easier than ever.&#8221; But today recyclers say it&#8217;s increasingly difficult to move mounting heaps of plastics, cardboard, bottles and newspaper that Denver residents enthusiastically stuff into purple bins. The problem: The ultimate end-users of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}