Recycling

Recycling Market

The recycling enterprise has undergone changes over the past 30 years, including marketplace fluctuations, the kinds of materials managed and how substances are accrued and processed. End market improvement is another place that has been in flux and looks one of a kind now than it did when Americans started recycling en masse within the late 1980s and early 1990s. "A lot of applications came online within the '90s" and put a focus on "creating ability at the state level," Gjerde said, bringing up Minnesota, California and Pennsylvania as enterprise leaders. Those states are some of the few that consistently maintained give up market improvement companies and initiatives at the same time as other state packages waned.

• Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators.
• Conserves natural resources such as timber, water and minerals.
• Increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of materials.
• Prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials.