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REGION/NATIONAL
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Denton Record-Chronicle
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Time to clean
lazy recycling
habits
up our
spared — for now, High said.
Landfills are not being used for
recycling, he said. But falling
prices for used materials hurts.
“Our revenues have seen
declines in the last year,” High
said.
irst, I must apologize to
the good people of China.
For the past several
years, I’ve recycled my gallon
milk jugs — but haven’t rinsed
them out. Lazy, I guess.
Just as bad, I’ve been tossing
pizza boxes into The Watch-
dog’s recycling bin, even though
one side is always greasy.
Stick with me as I show the
chain reaction from this lazi-
ness that contributes to a global
recycling crisis.
Most of our nation’s recy-
clables have been shipped to
China. They send us shipping
containers filled with electron-
ics and clothing. We fill the
containers with recyclables and
ship them back to China.
But not so much anymore.
Two years ago, a documen-
tary film called Plastic China
exposed the horrific conditions
of Chinese recycling workers
and the pollution this causes
in the world’s most populated
country.
China’s leaders launched
several initiatives, including
“Blue Sky 2018,” which aims to
ban foreign garbage smuggling
into the country.
China also announced that
as of Jan. 1 this year, it would no
longer accept certain types of
recyclables because this “foreign
garbage” was polluting its air
and water.
China’s statement on this:
‘We found that large amounts
of dirty wastes or even hazard-
ous wastes are mixed in the sol-
id waste that can be used as raw
F
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IN THE KNOW
What you can’t recycle
DON’TS
■ Here are items that many recycling plants can’t take: disposable
coffee cups, dirty diapers, clothing, linen, yogurt cups, butter containers,
vegetable oil bottles, containers with food scraps or grease, plastic bags
and overflow items that don’t fit in a garbage bin.
■ Don’t recycle anything that can be tangled on the recycling conveyor
belt, such a hoses, wires, electronics or chains.
The Watchdog Desk works for
you to shine light on question-
able practices in business and
government. We welcome your
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Contact The Watchdog
Email: watchdog@dallasnews.
China’s actions have “had a
ripple effect across the globe,”
says Robert Smouse, who runs
Fort Worth’s solid waste pro-
gram. “This is something I have
not experienced or seen in my
professional career.”
Dave Lieber
DOS
THE WATCHDOG
com
■ Recyclables should be clean, empty and dry.
■ Items collected include: cardboard, paper, glass, plastic, tin and
aluminum.
■ Wash out food containers, including bottles and cans. Labels can be
left on.
■ Learn more at RecycleOftenRecycleRight.com, produced by Waste
Management.
■ Check your city’s website for more details.
Call: 214-977-2952
Write: Dave Lieber, RO. Box
655237, Dallas, 1X75265
COMMENTARY
materials. To protect China’s
environmental interests and
people’s health, we urgently ad-
just the imported solid wastes
list, and forbid import of solid
wastes that are highly polluted.”
Then, last month, China fur-
ther surprised global recycling
markets when it banned all in-
coming recyclables for 30 days.
Because China has been
the largest recipient of recycla-
bles, and the U.S. is among the
biggest senders of materials, the
market price for used materials
has dropped.
The milk gallons I didn’t
wash out and the greasy pizza
boxes I threw in my recycling
bin contributed to the prob-
lem. Multiply me by millions,
and you get an idea why China
doesn’t want to be “plastic Chi-
na” anymore.
It’s our fault
“The reason we have this
problem is because we’re not
recyclingswell,” says David
Biderman, executive director of
the Solid Waste Association of
Encouraging future
Corey Troiani, area director
of Texas Campaign for the En-
vironment, says new recycling
operations have opened in
North Texas in recent years, and
that should keep materials from
getting sent to China, which
was expensive anyway.
Because of this planning by
public and private enterprises,
Troiani predicts, “Ultimately,
we’re going to weather this
storm of uncertainty and vola-
tility in the markets.”
The Watchdog’s advice is to
check your city’s website for the
latest information about what
recyclables are accepted. And
see the In The Know box that
goes with this column for more
information on that.
As for me, I’m going to rinse
my bottles. Keep grease and
food out of the bin. And rip
apart those pizza boxes. Sorry,
China.
Staff writer Marina Trahan
Martinez contributed to this
report.
North America.
‘We put things in recycling
that don’t belong. People are
putting in plastic bags, batteries,
hoses and other things that are
made of plastic or metal that
they think should be recycled.”
It’s called “hope recycling”
because people want and hope
something should be recycled,
even if it’s not allowed. (Mrs.
Lieber, I hope you are reading
this.)
from $150 a ton to $5 a ton.
‘We’ve had to slow down our
operations,” says Greta Calvery,
spokeswoman for Hous-
ton-based Waste Management.
“One out of every four items
that we get in our carts are not
recyclable. If people don’t know
whether they’re recyclable, they
put it in the bin anyway. It shuts
our equipment down.”
“Tanglers” like plastic bags,
hoses, electrical cords and
clothing are the worst, she says.
“We spend two hours every shift
cutting out things that shouldn’t
be there.”
Landfill in southern Dallas.
The new plant can process
cleaner materials than older
plants, Dallas sanitation direc-
tor Kelly High said. None of its
materials go to China.
In a major move that bol-
sters recycling, the Dallas City
Council voted unanimously
Wednesday to require owners
and managers of multi-family
residences to provide recycling
for their tenants by 2020.
“This is a good day for Dal-
las,” said council member Sandy
Greyson, the ordinance’s spon-
sor. The city is also considering
a requirement that businesses
must recycle.
Communities elsewhere in
the U.S. that depend on ship-
ping to China are most affected
by that country’s ban.
North Texas landfills are
This year, China said it
would only accept recyclables
that are 99.5 percent contam-
ination free. Previously, the
acceptance rate was 97 percent.
“Very few North American
recycling facilities can satisfy
that standard,” Biderman says.
In some parts of the U.S.,
recyclables are going to land-
fills. There’s no proof that it’s
happening in North Texas. But
the prices we’re getting have
plunged. The Wall Street Jour-
nal reports that the selling price
for mixed paper prices dropped
‘Good day’ in Dallas
Dallas is working to stay
ahead. The city recently entered
a public-private partnership
to operate a year-old recycling
facility at the McCommas Bluff
BRIEFLY
Pair lead New York’s
Mermaid Parade
ACROSS THE NATION
Adrian, Mich.
‘Jeopardy!’ winner
could get prison term
ing into the email accounts of rized computer access,
other professors, administrators
and students.
Stephanie Jass, who taught
A seven-time “Jeopardy!” at Adrian College in south- into other people’s email ac-
winner who taught history at a em Michigan, pleaded guilty counts without permission over
small Michigan college faces up Wednesday in Lenawee Circuit
to five years in prison for sneak- Court to a charge of unautho- the college reset everyone’s pass-
words and assigned everyone
Her sentencing is scheduled the same temporary password.
Another professor learned what
Authorities said Jass logged Jass had done and told school
officials.
for July 20.
By Julie Walker
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Throngs of
people dressed as mermaids,
fish and other aquatic creatures
packed New York’s Coney Island
on Saturday for a sun-soaked
edition of the zany Mermaid
Parade.
Crowds cheered as Neil
Gaiman, the author of fantasy
works such as American Gods,
and his wife, Amanda Palmer,
a musician with the Dresden
Dolls duo, led the parade.
The couple were dressed as
King Neptune and Queen Mer-
maid.
“We absolutely
love mermaids and
mythology and
everything and this
is like the most fun ”
parade-goer Carley Boltz
The 48-year-old Jass, of Te-
a four-day period last year after cumseh, was later fired.
— The Associated Press
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fun,” said parade-goer Carley
Boltz. ‘We just get to go once a
year and just dress up and have
a blast.”
Cindy Lopez’s princess mer-
maid mashup was complete
with a tail that she planned to
take for a dip in the ocean.
Sean Marz wore sequins, an
algae crown and sea shells cov-
ering his skivvies.
“There’s a lot of shimmering
objects pasted to my body,” he
said.
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