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Local municipalities shouldn't renegotiate with Scott Wagner's Penn Waste
China, in response to Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods, set much stricter contamination limits on the recyclable materials they’ll accept. There’s also been an outright ban on some materials.
China just happens to be the largest buyer of recyclable material in the world.
The net result? American sanitation companies that send their recyclables to China for processing are facing markedly higher costs.
That just happens to include Scott Wagner’s York County-based company, Penn Waste.
Wagner, of course, is the Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, and in many ways, he’s been following the divisive partisan road map laid out by Trump in his victorious 2016 presidential campaign.
China just happens to be the largest buyer of recyclable material in the world.
The net result? American sanitation companies that send their recyclables to China for processing are facing markedly higher costs.
That just happens to include Scott Wagner’s York County-based company, Penn Waste.
Wagner, of course, is the Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, and in many ways, he’s been following the divisive partisan road map laid out by Trump in his victorious 2016 presidential campaign.
Read more: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/08/06/editorial-local-municipalities-shouldnt-renegotiate-penn-waste/894282002/
