Mesa City Manager Chris Brady said the recycling business is an economic stressor.
Don't know is Brady is trying to punch above his light weight status matched up with a global economist. Take a look:
“This year, we are faced with significantly higher recycling costs here in Arizona,” he said. “If we go back in time, we think about how we were taught recycling was going to save the Earth, but now it comes down to the cost of doing it,” said Brady.
“It’s cheaper to put your plastic
in a landfill.”
From left, Chris Brady, Mesa city manager; Mick Dalrymple, director of university sustainability at ASU; and Michaela Martin, vice president and central region lead for commercial energy at ICF International, took part in a panel discussion Sept. 26 at the 2020 SRP Economic Forecast event.
Phoenix Business Journal publisher Ray Schey talks to local business representatives at the annual SRP Economic Forecast in Scottsdale. A global economist said recession may be on the horizon. (Photo by Deagan Urbatsch/Cronkite News
SCOTTSDALE – Consumer spending is up and economic growth in Arizona and the rest of the U.S. is on the rise, but investor caution is one sign pointing to a potential recession in 2020, a global economist told Arizona business leaders.
“There is an undercurrent of alarm in this country that a recession is not only possible, but probable in the next year,” global economist Bernard Baumohl said this week at an economic session with local business leaders. . . "
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