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Article: A curbed appetite: municipal officials need continuing assurances that curbside recycling programs make fiscal sense.
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The accounting scandals that exposed the profits of companies such as Enron and Worldcom as being dubiously calculated shows that creativity and mathematics can indeed go hand-in-hand.
Weilding a calculator with a pre-determined goal in mind can result in the "fuzzy math" decried by George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential debates. Such a technique can also provide ammunition for two different sides of an argument, as often happens when curbside recycling is the subject of a debate.
Ultimately, city and county officials must determine if recycling programs are in the interests of taxpayers, and calculating the short-term and long-term fiscal effects of ...
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