News flash: less trash is going to landfills.
Thrift-driven Americans are fixing up, making do and reusing so much to cope with the recession that the drop in throwaways means less fill for landfills.
This is good, right? Not if you run a landfill.
To deal with the drop-off in dropoffs, landfills are laying off workers, reducing hours of operation and hiking disposal fees, with the increases passed along to cities, businesses and consumers.
Well, I think here on this blog, we'll just celebrate the slower filling of the landfills, as people reduce, reuse, and recycle. Hopefully, this is a cultural change that will hang on long after the recession is just a memory.
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