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The Pros And Cons Of Green Fence Recyclers

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Of course, not all US recyclers welcomed the stringent Green Fence regulations with such open arms. Some recyclers producing low-grade scrap material that could not meet the Green Fence standards went completely out of business (Holbrook 2013) while others decided that the economics of sorting and baling mixed recyclables from the single-stream recycling flow would be so cost-negative that it was better to landfill rather than recycle (Frost 2015). Still other recyclers turned to alternative markets in Vietnam and Malaysia in order to continue exporting their scrap materials (Taylor 2014). As the 2013 China International Scrap Conference, Robert Stein of the scrap metal company Alter Trading Co. asked Chinese government officials to consider

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