This news can’t be good. This April, if anyone in southwest Montana wants to recycle newspaper, plastic, glass or cardboard, they’ll need to drive it all the way into to Missoula. Link to News Channel 13 article and a follow up editorial in the Ravalli Republic after the jump.
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