City hasn’t profited from recycling

Amplifying on an article from earlier this month, La Presse goes into more detail about why the city has failed to turn any profit from its paper recycling, even as the demand grows for recycled paper to make cardboard boxes. It’s a complicated tale but although the problem is blamed ultimately on the machinery that’s meant to separate plastic from paper, I still think the city’s unwillingness to ask us to separate the materials first (as is done in many other places) is also a point of failure.