Recycling in the USA : Vision and reality |
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Authors: | Oscar W Albrecht Ernest H Manuel Fritz W Efaw |
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Institution: | 1. US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA;2. Mathtec, Inc, PO Box 2392, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA |
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Abstract: | In 1978 the US Environmental Protection Agency contracted Mathtech Incorporated to identify the impediments to recycling and evaluate their economic effects. The facilities studied represented a cross-section of recycling technologies, ownership types, geographical locations, and recovered products. It was discovered that none of the facilities was economical in the sense of providing the least-cost mode of disposal for municipal solid waste, and all of them suffered net losses in recent operations. Indications were that financial performance would improve slightly. A major deterrent to economical operations was the availability of lower-cost disposal by landfill. |
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