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The Mining Journal reports that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has proposed an increase in landfill tipping fees as a way to spur more recycling in the state. Michigan has one of the lowest recycling rates in the US at 14%. The bill is now pending in the state legislature\u2019s House Environmental Committee.… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[605]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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The Mining Journal reports<\/a> that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has proposed an increase in landfill tipping fees as a way to spur more recycling in the state. Michigan has one of the lowest recycling rates in the US at 14%. The bill is now pending in the state legislature\u2019s House Environmental Committee.<\/p>\n

Read more in, \u201cPaying more for landfill might help recycling<\/a>,\u201d published in\u00a0The Mining Journal<\/em>\u00a0on March 19th, 2018.<\/h4>\n

The proposal increases the cost of putting waste into landfills and would produce an estimated $79 million annually for environmental initiatives. Increased spending on recycling is warranted, stated Michigan Department of Environmental Quality recycling specialist Emily Freeman. In 2015, \u201cwe had $635,000 in recycling grant funding available, and received $3.9 million in grant requests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landfill surcharges have been an important feature of recycling investment programs at the state (Penn.), local (Boulder County, Colo. and Alameda County, Calif.) and at the municipal level (Champaign\/Urbana, Ill.). The money that’s been raised was used to build out infrastructure for recycling, composting, and reuse (in the private, public and community sectors). Twenty years ago, a program was implemented via a citizen referendum that also prevented a planned garbage incinerator. StopWaste is a county government agency in Oakland, Calif. that has been working on these issues for years. You can learn more at\u00a0https:\/\/www.stopwaste.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ll be monitoring the situation in Michigan closely, but we applaud Gov. Snyder’s initiative to increase the rate of recycling in his state.<\/p>\n

Siga al Instituto para la Autosuficiencia Local en\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0y\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0y, para recibir actualizaciones mensuales sobre nuestro trabajo,\u00a0registro<\/a>\u00a0para nuestro bolet\u00edn informativo general del ILSR.<\/em><\/p>\n

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