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> Goodwill can start an unofficial recycling sorting operation, and learn to make a profit center out of this cost center. Most recycling centers are running a
by clintonb 5y ago
> Goodwill can start an unofficial recycling sorting operation, and learn to make a profit center out of this cost center.
Most recycling centers are running at a deficit because no one wants to buy the recycled material.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBGZtNJAt-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBGZtNJAt-M
- warmwaffles 5y agoThanks for the NPR video. Eye opening.
- nwah1 5y agoSeems implausible that they can perpetually run at a deficit. Unless you mean absent subsidies. But if such subsidies exist then that is one way to convert the losses into profits.
- wumpus 5y agoIn my local area, garbage fees are used to pay for the losses of recycling. That's the usual thing in the US. Same thing for residential waste in landfills.