Resource Recycling Magazine: Did you know?

## Did you know?

_By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling_

We offer some unique facts about recycling.

**Bill Gates** loves garbage. The co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world's richest people owns Cascade Investments. This investment firm now owns about one-quarter of **Republic Services**, the nation's second largest waste management firm and a major recycling processor. Gates' stock holding in the waste and recycling company approaches $2.5 billion.

Did your local MRF see its sales of baled homopolymer HDPE bottles (e.g., **milk jugs**) decline last year by about 3 percent? That's expected, because Americans are consuming less and less milk. The drop in consumption, which was the largest in more than 35 years, is due to children representing a smaller and smaller slice of the U.S. population, plus because of the rising price of milk due to increased costs for the grains fed to cows.

Do you think **the magazine industry** is dying? Well, in fact it isn't. According to _Mediafinder_, 82 magazines ceased publishing in the last year, but another 227 magazines began operations. Many of the new periodicals were in the regional-interest, lifestyle, craft and luxury categories.

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