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���� <br />At this t�me, markets for recycling residential newspapers, food <br />and beverage cans, and g�ass containers range from precarious to <br />subsidized. Uncertain market conditions virtually drove <br />Recycling Unlimited, of St. Paul, out of business. There is <br />little or no local market for non-color separated glass <br />or plastic beverage containers. Food (tin) cans are collected <br />only to removE them from the waste stream. <br />Recently, a large load of color separated glass containers from a <br />nearby community drop-off center was not acceptable for zecycling <br />because it was contaminated by wi.ndow glass, metal rings and <br />covers. Quality control of glass containers for recycling i.s <br />critical, otherwise they are likely to be delivered to the <br />landfill as "processed waste". <br />A survey of local market prices during the past five years is <br />given in the following table: <br />Year <br />1986-� <br />1985 <br />1984 <br />1983 <br />1982 <br />TYPICAL LOCAL MARKET PRICES <br />FOR S�LECT RECYCLABLES <br />DELIVERED '£0 THE MARK�T <br />Newsprint Faod Cans��'^ Steel Bev. Cans A1iun. Bev. Cans <br />$/Ton $/Ton $/lb.��'^^" $/lb.����^ <br />High Low High Low High Low High Low <br />�5 10 nil 1/2 to 1/3 .39 .33 <br />2Q 10 <br />25 20 <br />20 10 <br />]. fl 5 <br />nil <br />nil <br />nil <br />nil <br />that <br />of <br />alum. bev <br />cans <br />.33 .30 <br />.52 .3b <br />.55 .40 <br />N/A I�/A <br />i <br />� <br />Glass Con. � <br />Color Separat� <br />$/Tvn <br />High Low � <br />40 40 <br />45 40 � <br />45 45 � <br />45 45 <br />45 45 � <br />� Through May, 1986 <br />-�'Q Commonly called "tin cans". 2he "high price" is usually not available. <br />��-�=� Subsidized. prices; nonsubsidized prices are considerably less; for example, steel � <br />beverage containers bring about one cent to two cents pex lb. on the open market. <br />Of particular interest on the subject of recycling aluminum and � <br />stee�. beverage cans and glass containers is a Minneapolis Star <br />and Tribune article of Apri1 11, 1986, about a sma11 Roseville <br />firm, Minnesota Soft Drink Recycle which lost about $430,000 over � <br />the past two years. However as the article points out, this <br />company has not gone out of business because it is, in effect, <br />subsidized by�Twin Cities area sof t drink companies interested in � <br />opposing returnable beverage container deposit legislation. <br />16 <br />� <br />