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Recycled Materials for Building

Study finds benefits of “single stream” recycling can be deceptive and costly

Recycling’s real purpose is remanufacturing and end use. Most lay people, and perhaps most local officials, assume that all recycled items go to their best use. They are shocked to learn that the materials they dutifully put in a recycling bin may in fact wind up in a landfill. Unfortunately single stream recycling decreases the…