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Residential Recycling Is Being Dumped In Landfills, Faces A Crisis

On a recent episode of this podcast, I went on a brief side rant praising my local Meijer store for accepting plastic bags for recycling and had a minor freak-out over the looming global environmental crisis over our increasingly all-plastic everything.

That caught the attention of Joe Munem, a Daily Detroit podcast listener who works as director of government affairs and public relations with GFL Environmental USA, a trash hauler and recycling service.

He wrote us to say that municipal recycling programs have some very tough choices to make in the wake of official government actions by the…

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