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Originally Posted by mersar
A lot of the material will be processed fairly quickly, though some things they may just store until the market recovers (the market for recycling is very cyclic, as the largest buyer of bulk quantities of recycled product is China, mostly paper and plastic, and they tend to flip between where they buy quite a lot, but fortunately if you have space you could make a nice profit if you hold on). A lot of the material though from Calgary supposedly will be used by local companies, I recall hearing something about one of the major shingle manufacturers being the destination for a lot of the paper and the metal was destined for somewhere in western Canada as well.
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Interestingly, environmentalists are fairly split on the recycling programs in N.A. I was reading that some environmentalists feel we should be burying (essentially storing) plastics until a better process is developed. I guess the pollution from the recycling is pretty huge, not to mention shipping of the materials. There are companies here that recycle and supposedly do it with less pollution, but they can't pay the price that China has been offering.
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