Recycling goes from boom to bust as economy stalls

Sunday, December 7, 2008 | 8:16 p.m. CST; updated 10:45 a.m. CST, Wednesday, February 11, 2009

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Norm Steenstra's budgeting worries mount with each new load of cardboard, aluminum cans and plastics jugs dumped at West Virginia's largest county recycling center.

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