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Speaker 1: Millions of Americans are still forced to separate their garbage

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Speaker 1: from their recyclables, but more and more cities are now

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Speaker 1: sending all the garbage and one big pile little landfill.

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Speaker 1: After fifty years of lecturing us and pressuring us and

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Speaker 1: demanding that we recycle everything to save the earth, cities

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Speaker 1: are trashing their recycling programs because they're too expensive. One

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Speaker 1: reason is the chi Coms. The chi Coms used to

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Speaker 1: buy all of our recycled stuff, but they got tired

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Speaker 1: of all the garbage that was mixed in, so in

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Speaker 1: January eighteen, they stopped importing our junk. Another reason recycling

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Speaker 1: programs are biting to dust they never made financial sense.

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Speaker 1: Big trash haulers used recycling as a loss leader to

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Speaker 1: snag the accounts they really wanted carting everyday trash from

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Speaker 1: residences and industries. But now they're raising prices like corporations

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Speaker 1: used to pretend they believed in global warming because they

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Speaker 1: knew their customers did, but they never did. Now, without

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Speaker 1: China's money and with haulers charging more, recycling has become

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Speaker 1: a luxury cities cannot pay for. When cities were pushing

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Speaker 1: recycling as a sure way to save the earth. They

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Speaker 1: said we couldn't afford not to do it. Now those

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Speaker 1: same people say we can't afford to do it, so

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Speaker 1: audios recycling. But it doesn't matter because, according to Alexandria

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Speaker 1: Ocasio Cortez, we only have twelve years to live anyway,

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Speaker 1: So trash it all, folks, is not gonna matter in

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Speaker 1: twelve years. Live it up.