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		monort on June 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't sol... Maybe it depends on the city, but often it's a municipal government granted monopoly. E.g. in San Francisco it's Recology. https://www.aoausa.com/magazine/?p=4982 I bet, each city, that enforces waste sorting, has a monopoly.

Firadeoclus on June 29, 2018 [–]

Sorry, I should have been clearer. What I meant is a sorting service, not a collection service.

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