# Recycling Hype

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-hype/10754>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 20, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-hype/10754 "2000-04-20T21:55:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tertal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ebca7d/32.png) [@tertal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tertal)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-hype/10754/1 "2000-04-20T21:55:00Z")

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Where did it go? Five years ago recycling was the trendy thing in the media, what happen now was are problems solved?

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-hype/10754/2 "2000-04-20T22:00:00Z")

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I think that the appearance of this thread is a (very) delayed result of the board outage we had yesterday. I’m going to lock this copy of it and direct the OP and respondants to its sister thread, located [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/007719.html) .