You make it sound like recycling requires that very little money is extracted from taxpayers unwilling pockets.
That’s simply not true, it requires very large amounts of money to be confiscated from taxpayers.
The proof?
How many of the non-metal recycling efforts are operated by private enterprise unsubsidized?
Very, very few, if any. These are all government enterprises with limitless budgets, and no accountability.
Even the post up thread, I’ll wager that the company receives government assistance of some sort directly related to the recycling.
It’s very wasteful to recycle most things we throw away in our daily lives.
HELP SAVE THE EARTH...........STOP RECYCLING.
“That’s simply not true, it requires very large amounts of money to be confiscated from taxpayers.”
You know, you’re simply making that up.
In the county I live in, the recycling program is run as an enterprise fund of the county and actually turns a profit that is used to fund a number of other related programs.
Much of the revenues come from contracts and services to large commercial organizations who find it much cheaper to pay to have recyclable materials hauled to the recycling center for processing rather than paying to have those materials hauled to a landfill because landfill tipping fees are so expensive.
The same is actually true for private individuals here: our overall solid waste fees are actually reduced because it’s cheaper for the haulers to rid themselves of the recyclable materials at the county processing center rather than paying the tipping fees to dispose of those materials at a landfill.