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On the recordNovember 14, 2019
If the gentleman would yield the floor for a moment, I said earlier in my remarks, to paraphrase it again, that it is possible to do good and do well at the same time. It really is. I am just happy that more and more people are doing that. While we are having this conversation, I just want to mention that when we showed up at the recycling event at Glascow High School last Saturday afternoon, they took a bunch of our stuff to recycle--papers, bottles, cans, paint thinners, a dehumidifier, and all kinds of stuff. One thing they wouldn't take was our Styrofoam. We have one place in Delaware--and we are not a big State; 100 miles long and 50 miles wide--we have one place in Delaware that will take Styrofoam. What I would love to do in the months to come and in the new year is for us to start on recycling projects and focus on that because it is not a problem only in Delaware; there are a lot of places where it is hard to recycle Styrofoam. We can try to figure it out. Maybe somebody around the world or somebody in other States has figured this out and they are doing it. We need to learn from them, find out what works, and do more of that. In my State, we have a hard time dealing with it.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware
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Nov 14, 2019

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