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Recycling is getting more expensive. And municipalities are shrinking their recycling programs.
Pittsburgh Quarterly Extra
Garbage & Recycling
  PITTSBURGH TODAY  
Can Higher Garbage Pickup Fees Reduce Consumption and Waste?
by JULIA FRASER

The United States is in the midst of a recycling crisis. Decades of recycling haven’t curbed America’s appetite to consume. It’s increasingly difficult to find someone willing to buy the soda cans, old magazines, milk jugs and pickle jars we recycle. Recycling is getting more expensive. And municipalities are shrinking their recycling programs.

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