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This is not entirely correct
By PandaBear on 7/8/2008 2:43:26 AM , Rating: 2
I recommend the author of this article to do some more research before posting the myth.

My father in law manages a recycling company in the San Francisco Bay Area and while it is collecting CRT for free, the government is actually paying for it by the pound if it follows all the regulation of recycling. The machines are grind locally and separated into glass, metal, plastic. Then it is sold to 3rd world country as raw material for manufacturing.

Metal is smelted and separated by electrolysis, glass shipped to N Korea due to its need for glass and unable to afford anything remotely high quality, and plastic to China as raw material for all sorts of things.

Not that I say the author is lying, but please don't claim that all free recycling is free (because the government is paying for it) and polluting the 3rd world countries (because the labor is not always outsourced).


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