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Originally Posted by jawagord

More Blue cart silliness, current city council just can’t get past their ideology, some things are just garbage, no one wants this plastic, burn it or bury it or stop using it.

Last year, it cost nearly $300,000 to rent semi-trailers to house the hard-to-reprocess material, a practice dating back to September 2017. The packages now fill 100 storage units with 1,600 tonnes of plastics, said a city official.

That could bring the total spent to about $500,000 and the volume of plastics and the amount expended to store them at the Shepard Landfill site is growing at the pace of two to three trailer units a month.

Ward 7 Coun. Druh Farrell said dumping the plastics in a city landfill would come at a monetary cost, just as recycling does.

“Simply reverting back to landfilling, we can’t go back to that and I have hope our recycling team will make progress on this,” she said.

Even so, if the plastic stockpiling endures for a considerable length of time, “at some point we may need to look at a major decision” on the material, added Farrell.

https://calgarysun.com/news/local-ne...9-d04ce7757aff

Global recently had a series of stories about how the market for recyclables is drying up everywhere. What a frickin' waste of money. Druh needs to admit that the "major" decision to be made isn't all that major--we need to stop trying to recycle items that have no market for them because what we're doing is worse than throwing them in a landfill.