Last year, price tags for a range of new things jumped sharply from the year before, but the cost to landfill those things was pretty much flat. An annual survey from the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF) found that even while inflation was roughly 7 in the U.S. in 2021, average landfill tips fees were either up slightly or down slightly, depending on the methodology used to calculate them. EREF's nationwide survey of 378 landfills found the unweighted average landfill tip fee increased from $53.72 in 2020 to $54.03 in 2021, up about 0.6. On a ton-weighted-average basis, which takes into account different amounts of MSW disposed at landfills of varying sizes, the rate went from $54.70 in 2020 to $54.17 in 2021, down 1 . U.S. MRFs and recyclables traders received about $1.19 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans, including nearly $318 million received after Congress allowed certain companies to take a second bite at the PPP apple. A recent Resource Recycling analysis of updated Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data shows MRFs and recyclables trading companies received a total of $1,188,354,314 over the past two years.
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