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Photo by Kevin Anderson

Trucks unload residential recycling material that will be sorted and bundled into separate loads.

Deffenbaugh Industries facility in Kansas City, Kan., picks up, sorts, bundles and sends what we use. The material will eventually be made into something new, again.

May 6, 2008

Talking points

Do you think Veterans Day should be a prominent holiday?

Absolutely. We wouldn’t be able to sit here and eat lunch like this if it weren’t for the veterans. We’ve got millions of people that fought and died to save this country; it should be more than a bank holiday.

— Byron Arthur

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