I’ve said this here before: The day someone offers to buy your trash you will know that recycling makes economic sense. Until then it’s just a liberal feel-good scam paid for (as always) with tax dollars, and another way to make people be sheep.
“The day someone offers to buy your trash you will know that recycling makes economic sense”
Scrapers have always bought metal trash and you can get money today for your bin of metal. They also make agreements with large producers of scrap metal and will pay them for picking it up. Metal is definitely worth it.
I’ve seen a few private plastic recyclers open around here in industrial areas.
Recycling is 100% worth it when the material is collected in sufficient bulk. However, picking up every home’s bagged tin cans with massive trucks is 100% stupidity
My city recently gave us big rolling trash and recycling bins. The blue bin is somewhere behind my house. Unused