America’s Waste Management Oligarchs

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1262

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Can America recycle its trash, if the Oligarchs of Trash do not want to recycle that trash?

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GUESTS: Neil Seldman, President, Waste to Wealth Initiative, Institute for Local Self Reliance; Brenda Platt, Director Composting for Community Project, Institute of Local Self Reliance

We’ve all seen the graphic of a little fish being eaten by a bigger fish, which in turn is eaten by an even bigger fish, which in turn is eaten by an even bigger fish, and so on, and on, until there is but one or two big fish left in the ocean…

If you swap that little fish in the graphic for a little garbage truck, you now have the picture of how the nation’s community trash haulers became the nations trash oligarchs.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Waste Oligarchs

In the 1950’s, America’s trash was a highly decentralized industry, with tens of thousands of local trash haulers and small public and private landfills taking in the nation’s trash. Today, just two corporations, Waste Management and Republic Services, control nearly half of that industry, and they do so by providing a single stream service of hauling, recycling and dumping the nation’s trash into their landfills.

This concentration of trash in the hands of two companies gives them a lot of political power, which they use to get even more political power, which they use to get even more political power, until one day the oligarchs might well be the only political power left in Washington, D.C..

And though the Trash Oligarchs have now taken over the job of recycling America’s trash, they really do not make their money by recycling trash that is recyclable; they make their money by hauling trash to their landfills. And that means what should be recycled, may not be being recycled. And so we ask:

COMMENT BELOW: Can America recycle its trash if the Oligarchs of Trash do not want to recycle that trash?

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