Posted on 05/25/2023 9:34:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
>> economic sense
there’s practically no economic value, but separating the waste material upfront offers the potential for improved processing at some later point.
The necessary economic value of professional sports or consuming Bud Light is non-existent, but economies are created nonetheless.
My perspective on this matter stems from the handling industrial waste. And the overall volume of waste remains the same regardless of how it’s stored — save the materials that can be reprocessed/recycled.
The everything or nothing positions are ultimately counterproductive.
If you can turn a profit from recycling my garbage without requiring my unpaid labor for separating the waste material upfront, more power to you. I’ll be happy to negotiate a price for you to pay me for the garbage, but part of the agreement must be that you have to remove from my property whatever garbage I have to sell, no less often than once per week.
Industrial level recycling makes some sense, especially with aluminum and sometimes steel.
Residential curbside recycling is just flat stupid.
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