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Source: Darren Staples, Reuters ABC News

The economics of recycling is based on booming consumerism.

Economic alarms sounding for recycling industry

After years of steadily rising prices for recovered plastics, bottles, paper, aluminium and cardboard the bottom's fallen out of the market; drops of 30, 40, 50, and even 80 per cent are common.

The demand from China has shrunk to the point where the cost of exporting is now exceeding the value of some of the materials.

The pity is, once good habits are broken, they are unlikely to return.
I'm not sure tax payers will pay more for recycling services and, if it's lost, how will the Affluenza society deal with their crap?

Landfill! Incineration!

The Tab becomes an opinion!

The Australian Broadcasting Commission goes to great lengths to avoid taking sides, especially during conflicts.
In this case the default Tab name reminds me of Cricket or Golf commentary.
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like Hiroshima after the bomb

McDonell and cameraman Rob Hill walked for 12 hours to get to the town of Ying Xiu, which was until last week an industrial town with several factories, and a population McDonell estimated would have been around 11,000.

"The whole place has been flattened. There's not one building left standing," he told ABC Radio's The World Today program.

"They've accounted for about 2,400 people, so presumably everybody else has died - including those attending a middle school and a primary school that were full at the time.

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Associated: Earthquake in Sichuan Province