All of RI’s cities and towns send their recycling to RI’s Materials Recycling Facility, and 38 of 39 send their trash to RI’s Central Landfill. At current trash disposal rates, the Central Landfill will reach capacity in 2038. Alternatives to landfill disposal, such as shipping our trash out-of-state or building a waste-to-energy facility, are very expensive. Reserving precious landfill space for materials that are non-recyclable is the common sense thing to do. When loads carrying recyclables have to be buried in the landfill, this takes up space unnecessarily. The Central Landfill is a resource that belongs to all Rhode Islanders, including future generations. Burying recycling does none of us any good. When recyclables are buried, we forever lose the opportunity to give those materials a second life — wasting the natural resources and energy that went into making the products in the first place. We can do better, RI