It’s always difficult to see difficult economic times leading to short-sighted decisions to cut programs that ultimately will cause increased harm in the future. Just like it’s difficult to see difficult economic times leading to short-sighted decisions to build infrastructure that ultimately will cause increased harm in the future. So roads get built instead of high-speed trains (see here and here), and now cities lose their recycling funding.
April 10, 2011
Economics v. the Environment: Wisconsin cities lose recycling funding
Posted by Jason J. Czarnezki under Uncategorized1 Comment
JASON J. CZARNEZKI 
April 17, 2011 at 12:23 PM
[…] I earlier posted about how Wisconsin cities would begin to lose their recycling programs. It seems now that “Gov. Scott Walker is backing away from his proposal to eliminate mandatory recycling, and instead his administration is suggesting that some localities might want to merge their garbage collection to save money.” Full article here. GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_bg", "ffffff"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_text", "29303b"); GA_googleAddAttr("theme_link", "909d73"); GA_googleAddAttr("LangId", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Autotag", "business"); GA_googleAddAttr("Autotag", "technology"); GA_googleAddAttr("Autotag", "education"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "environment"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "politics"); GA_googleAddAttr("Tag", "recycling"); GA_googleFillSlot("wpcom_below_post"); LikeBe the first to like this post. […]