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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J
How much money will HBC make from selling on recycled material? There is no way they are doing this at a loss just to keep some Whitehall manderin happy.
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With everyone recycling prices for raw materials has fallen. The market for contaminated materials is a cost, you have to pay for it to be taken away even though it is being recycled. This is why it is believed the only solution is separation at source, ie household separation. Obviously less packaging in the first place would help. Whinney Hill Tip has only 20 years left. If we have to carry on using landfill after that further afield the costs of waste collection will rise. The Council did look at weekly bin collections just before the elections as a vote winner but the cost of that was an increase of 30% on HBC's portion of the Council Tax, about £60 a year.