The world of recycling is changing, and it will cost you

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

EVERETT — Jeremy Youngren starts to cruise through alleyways around 6:30 a.m. in a big rumbling truck, five days a week.

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Youngren, 20, picks up recycling for Rubatino Refuse Removal. It’s one of the local garbage companies affected by new regulations in China. The country no longer accepts certain recyclables and has tightened rules about contaminated products.

The recycling market has since overflowed and made the process more expensive.

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China stopped accepting several recyclables more than a year ago. The list includes certain mixed paper and plastics, and anything contaminated by more than 0.5 percent. That number used to be about 5 percent.

Because of the shift, the recycling market here has become flooded and the price for those materials has dropped. That means people are paying more for their garbage services.

One main expense has been transportation. Before when China would send goods to the United States, the empty ships returning to Asia were loaded with recycling.

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“The China ban probably is harder on the West Coast than other areas that were shipping it someplace else,” he said.

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[Doreen]

1. I can not remember the name

but there was this movie where this guy went forward in time and people did not think for themselves and were basically stupid. The streets were piled high with garbage. Some of what is happening at this time makes me think of that movie.

[abqtommy]

2. I suspect

that you're thinking of the movie Idiocracy.

[SoCalNative]

4. Drink Brawndo

It's got electrolytes!

[KT2000]

3. if it's Idiocracy -

I think of that movie all the time. We are there!