Another doomed industry, recycling?

[hermetic]

This link is to a page linking many stories from the UK about how cans, paper, glass, etc. that people put out in the blue bins now has to be stored in warehouses because of falling prices.
http://tinyurl.com/6omtph

"Town hall chiefs are to hire warehouses to store a mountain of recycled rubbish for which there is no use and no market, it was revealed today. Tin cans, plastic bottles, paper, card and glass carefully sorted by families and homeowners will be held indefinitely in the new refuse mountain. Councils which have introduced fortnightly rubbish collections and enforced draconian bin rules to compel householders to recycle admitted that no-one wants the material they have collected."

Now I have just heard a similar report from Canadian news but cannot find any links for it yet.

Yikes.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Sounds like propaganda to me

I have a hard time believing this story is endemic in the recycling universe. It is probably a localized event that is being pimped to attack green industries in the world.

[qb]

2. Recycling should not have to be profitable. It should be subsidized or owned by the government.

There is far greater benefit to recycling than what it can be sold for.