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Marching to the green orders of General Electric, its parent corporation, NBC (164 min v ABC 89, CBS 131 in the first eleven months of 2008) has covered the environment more heavily than its rival newscasts all year long. Anne Thompson has been the network's designated environmental affairs correspondent since she ended her cancer chemotherapy in March 2007. For NBC's closer, Thompson updated us on the unintended consequence of the nation's burgeoning ecoconsciousness. Garbage recycling centers are now overstuffed with aluminum cans and cardboard boxes and discarded newspapers as the global commodity price for trash plummets. Time was when recyclers would pay you $10 a ton to pick up trash; now they charge the same amount to take it off your hands.
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