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From: Fred Friedman (FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV)
Date: Fri Jan 17 1997 - 04:55:00 EST 

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:55 WET
From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman)
Subject: Re: Recycling centres (D. Underwood)

January 17

Dear D. Underwood,

>From the way you spelled centres I assume that you are coming from the UK or a UK Commonwealth country. Things may be different there. But in the US, the general way you site a recycling center is based on economics, transportation costs, locus to markets both for intake and outputs, and a host of other factors. Community opposition is not likely to be a problem for an MRF here, although it does happen; relatively speaking, it is not a significant problem. I know of successful urban MRFs (R2B2 in the Bronx is one of the best, Urban Ore and its counterpart in the San Francisco/Berkeley, CA area is another) and rural.

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