6/6/2006: Empty Gatorade bottles across the Charles

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Recycling is important, and recycling plastic bottles is hard.

Recycling is hard? The why was this article in the WSJ today?

Originally Posted by WSJ

Missing milk crates used to wind up in college dormitories as bins for clothes, books and CDs. Today pilfered crates -- as well as pallets, bakery trays and other containers made from a pricey high-density plastic resin -- are going into grinders in recycling plants, say dairy and soft-drink industry loss-prevention officials and police. As oil prices have climbed, so too have prices for the petroleum-based resin used in milk crates, pallets and other such items. Prices of the resin jumped more than 40% after Hurricane Katrina, rising to 87.50 cents per pound in November, according to Plastics News. Today prices are hovering in the 70 cents-per-pound range, nearly double the price just three years ago.

Not that the raft isn't cool n'all.