https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh en-us 2017-04-07 13:11:04 UTC 2017-04-11 13:19:36 UTC hello@padlet.com klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165373154 http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article24597907.html]]> 2017-04-07 13:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165373154 klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165867857 In Kansas City they spend about $4 million picking up recyclables a year, while it would only be around $550,000 to just dump these in a landfill.]]> 2017-04-11 13:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165867857 klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165868329 "Recyclables are commodities and commodity prices fluctuate widely." ]]> 2017-04-11 13:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165868329 klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165868986 "Why not make recycling pay by having the city more directly control the processing and selling of recyclables? Yet this makes little sense, given that the presumed landfill scarcity doesn’t exist."

]]> 2017-04-11 13:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165868986 klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165869927 MRF would be part of a complex that would provide offices for the solid waste division. The city believes that with MRF processing and selling recyclables will reduce the cost of recycling but a similar idea was introduced 15 years ago and it didn't work.

]]> 2017-04-11 13:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165869927 klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165871144 "Landfill space is like other resources, including oil. How much is “recoverable” fluctuates dramatically. Based on predictions past, we should have run out of oil several times already. The predictions never pan out."]]> 2017-04-11 13:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165871144 klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165871806 Even though Americans produce more garbage than ever before, we also have more landfill space than ever before.]]> 2017-04-11 13:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165871806 klmitchell19 https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165872027 “By the mid-1990s, nationwide landfill capacity stood at about 14 years; by 2001 capacity had risen to more than 18 years; and it is now up to 20 years."]]> 2017-04-11 13:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/klmitchell19/es6qzdk5p7mh/wish/165872027