My trash service doesn't even allow me to throw in empty steel shells from computers or anything like that into the recycling, even though its completely clean steel. I think a lot of the trash collection services just don't want to deal with it because too many people just contaminate the recyclables with food and simple trash waste to make it worth trying to recycle. Unfortunately, this has spread to scrap metal. Hopefully this will behave like the stock market and come back up sometime soon. I think that if America would stop trying to make so much money on the little things and instead put some percentage of money toward building the infrastructure for properly recycling these materials, we wouldn't have this problem. America is essentially importing everything, consuming it, and then exporting it all back out. What we keep is what is thrown in regular trash. Unbelievable, and it makes me mad just thinking about it.
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