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As I was growing up I heard a story about the very early days of Kodak.
Kodak was paying some guy to haul away their industrial waste solutions.
Over time, they reduced, and kept on reducing, the amount they paid him...
Then someone at Kodak found out the guy was re-covering the silver from their waste solutions,
and so did not mind the reductions in his pay... he was making more from the recovered silver.
Maybe this story is or is not true, but it bugs the s**t out of me that
our governments are building environmentally safe dump sites and the roads out to them,
and billing property owners via taxes to pay for these sites and the employees working there.
They also pay Republic/Waste Management/other ilk-corporations to "manage" these sites.
On top of that, homeowners pay monthly fees to these same corporations to pick up trash and re-cyclables.
The same corporation then "mines" the trash and recycle to sell as yet another profit center.
Our City government also ticked me off a few years ago by signing a 10-year contract with Allied Waste,
and each year we see a 10% increase in our monthly fees.
Doesn't all this sound even a little bit like my story about Kodak ?
ETA: PDX and the surrounding Oregon communities actually pay a rancher in far eastern Oregon
for the privilege of paying truckers to haul trash daily from the "recycling/transfer station"
and dump it on his "ranch"
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