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Recycling Not In Trouble: Leader

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A spokesperson for a state recycling group is refuting claims made in several news stories about the future of recycling.

Meleesa Johnson is President of the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin and is Director of Marathon County Solid Waste Department. Three articles in different publications outlined questions about contamination. She says the tenor of the articles was recycling was is a catastrophic state. Johnson says Wisconsin's recycling is far from that...

".....we are avid recyclers in Wisconsin and we realize that we recycle not only because it's good for the Earth but it's good for business. We realize there are costs involved and sometimes those costs do vary..."

 She says recycling was never intended to be 'free'...

"....to get that soda bottle, the number one soda bottle to a mill where it will be spun into a fiber, a thread to be made into a blanket, there are costs imbedded in that system that might not be completely off set...."

Part of the problem is a drop in market value for some recyclables. But Johnson says the cycle will change. She says many industries in Wisconsin need the recycled materials to make the goods we use.

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