How Demographics and Technology Explain the Evolving Tonne, Why Blue Box Materials are Changing, and What Technology has to Do About It

摘要

Blue Box. materials are changing, and have been since 2008 or earlier-on that we all agree. We even have a name for what is going on: The Evolving Tonne. This term refers to the fact that the Blue Box mix has less paper and more plastic than it used to and this changing mix is causing havoc for collection and processing systems, and well as for markets where it is increasingly hard to meet market specifications.