Santa Monica recyclables will be sent to a remote facility or redeemed at roving buyback truck
(WorldNews Environment)

Santa Monica´s recyclable materials will be sent to a processing facility outside the city or redeemed for cash at a mobile buyback center under a new city of Santa Monica plan to adapt to the global collapse of the recycling market. The city council voted in May to close the city´s only buyback center and start sending recyclables to a facility outside Santa Monica after learning that the city´s recycling program could no longer pay for itself because China had stopped accepting American recyclables the year prior on the grounds that the materials were too contaminated with trash. For the past quarter-century, the city had contracted...