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The State of Junk Recycling
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Junk recycling is good for every household no matter how big or small. The small steps that we take as families make impacts on our budget, communities, and our families' habits. But there is a bigger picture of junk recycling that people don't often think about. And that's the multi-million dollar large scale junk recycling that goes on every day across the United States. There is still so much that needs to be resolved when it comes to overall junk recycling and the removal of junk and wastes throughout our cities and suburbs. And these problems pose large and hard to answer questions that the community of junk removal companies has yet to answer. Year after year the US increases its awareness of the need to recycle and useless. As new laws passed each year restricting the amount of waste we produce daily, we are seeing more and more Americans choose reusable options rather than their single-use counterparts. These small changes cause ripples that can make large waves in the junkyards and landfills across the nation. Like a lot of other commodities, recycled material is subject to changing value based on the needs of the markets that need them. On a small level, that can be seen in the price changes for an average aluminum can at the local recycle centers in grocery stores across Fresno. But these prices and their meanings go much deeper. |
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Recycling In The New MillenniumIn the early 2000s, the world market for recycled waste was much different than it is today. With many materials - such as glass, paper, plastic, and metal - being produced on a scale that outmatched the need for these materials, leaving the benefits of recycling in the proverbial dust. When new materials are easier to come by and cheaper to purchase, the recycled equivalents did not carry much value. And to worsen the problem, when the prices of metals began to decline in the years before 2016, the demand dropped and huge quantities of reusable metals didn’t even make it to the recycling facilities in the first place. |
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The Current State Of Junk Recycling
The world of recycling is experiencing somewhat of a crisis in recent years. It boils down to where most of America’s recycling was going to in the first place. As we mentioned above, the cheap and streamlined manufacturing process of new materials means that the United States markets have hardly any use for recycled material. Unless it is their companies prerogative to do so, it is in most cases cheaper to just have new material made for your bottles and cans and shirts and shoes or whatever else your business manufactures. So the majority of Americans waste gets shipped off to other countries. Mostly to, you guessed it, China. But in recent years China has tightened its restrictions on the raw recycled material coming into their country. This leaves local communities like us here in Fresno County, with few options. While recycling is always our first goal here at Junk Gentlemen, we understand that cleaning and categorizing the recycled junk can be a hassle. We encourage our clients to do as much as they can in the way of separating their metals from their plastics and paper. Most recycled material that is submitted to facilities isn't cleaned of wrappers or stripped of plastic beforehand, and this leads to most materials being rejected and ending up in a landfill. That's why the most important and impactful thing that we can do as individuals is to clean and separate our recycled goods as much as we can each time we throw them in the recycle bins.
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