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To: Steady_on who wrote (15520)	12/17/2011 11:52:08 PM
From: PaperProphet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53574

Re:<"Yep... That explains why the EPA says that 93% of plastic winds up in land fills. All the high value hydrocarbon only plastic that is worth lots of money is being recovered."> Sorting plastic from the waste stream is expensive. Why do you think there's a market for sorted scrap plastic at around $800/ton?? Anyone can go to a dump and the plastic there is free for the picking. If you sort out a ton of PET, HDPE, LDPE, or PP for examples, you can get around $800 for that. Most are roughly the same price per ton. Any guesses why people aren't flooding garbage dumps sorting plastic and getting rich quick??