[jjmilt]

I am the author of the piece.

I've been a writer and editor for more than a decade, though I'm pretty new to FEE. Our organization is reputable; we've been around since the 1940s after being launched by Henry Hazlitt and Leonard Read. (You can read about us on Wiki here: https://bit.ly/2tCS4tY.)

Like any publication, we have our views (economics, free markets, and liberty) but we have an immaculate rating from Newsguard. This particular used sound sources--the New York Times, a Columbia Unv. study, and Popular Mechanics. It was also shared by multiple high profile economists. I think if you read the piece carefully, you'll see there is both an economic and environmental concern regarding mandatory recycling. Recycling makes sense in some cases, but not in others. It's also expensive and environmentally harmful in some cases--which is why hundreds of US cities are giving up on it (per the NYT). Happy to discuss the topic.