The other problem is scavenging. If you have a lot of aluminum or items with a deposit, someone on a walk on trash pick up day may pick it up and walk off with it. In affluent communities or those with a lot of valuable material, the recyclables may be picked over or even strewn about by those looking to make money from it.
I don’t need to clean up another mess left by those who went through my recyclables. So I just toss most of it now, except for a few things I take to the metal salvage myself now.
I think you’re right.
Looking back, a University education was useful insofar as it was instructive as to what the nutcases have in store for us, I could go on for hours with great specificity on most of the nonsense being foisted on everyone today. Didn’t believe it then, but here we are...
ANYWAY, there was this real psycho espousing the virtues of sweaters made from recycled plastic soda bottles. OK, whatever, but asked “how much?”, they were like $150.00, and this was fifteen years ago. Not a bad idea, except nobody can afford them, and presumably the point of making them out of trash means they should be inexpensive, not several orders of magnitude more expensive than the equivalent. This did not go over well in class. Later, saw this same professor in a photo/newspaper story railing against the university coal plant on one of our typical -10F winter days, these people are completely nuts, they have never run a business, nor understand how to survive in the real world, it’s just insane that they should be consulted on _anything_.