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Even with such disadvantages, there are profitable recycling operations. Three years ago, J.J. Hoyt, recycling manager at the U.S. Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, took over a solid-waste disposal program that had been costing taxpayers $1 million a year. A shrewd businessman, Hoyt was sensitive to hauling managers' needs...
New York City's experience is decidedly more mixed. Its primary landfill, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, already covering 2,200 acres and rising to a height of 155 ft., is rapidly filling up. And the city, which recycles only about 6% of its waste, must turn increasingly to recycling...
Critics of recycling in the U.S. claim that it weakens the economy, but Germany, one of the world's strongest economies, is showing that isn't necessarily so. Since last December, manufacturers and retail stores in Germany have been required to take back such transport packing materials as cardboard boxes...
One direct cost itemization form includes abudget item for "radioactive dog disposal."
Simmons says he is "outraged "that" ourprecious few health care dollars" are going to payfor items such as radioactive dog disposal.