Industry stakeholders are pushing back against national media focus on the pressures facing U.S. recycling markets. Leaders from MRF operators, paper mills and other companies note that materials-diversion stresses are real, but there is another side to the story. "We are seeing our municipal customers focus efforts on reducing contamination in their collection stream rather than eliminating their recycling programs altogether," said Susan Robinson, federal public affairs director for Waste Management. "In fact, of our over 5,000 municipal contract customers, we have only identified two that have chosen to pause or stop their recycling programs to date."
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