I have always steadfastly refused to recycle.
It is against my principles to give away raw materials for free.
It is against my principles to give away raw materials for free.
40 years ago when the recycling movement started, I told all my friends that recycling was a plot to get me to stockpile garbage. That opinion is still true.
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There is a market right here in the US for anything that is valuable enough to recycle. Think gold, silver, copper, aluminum, even iron and steel. Plastics are sometimes valuable enough, but in general anything that has enough value to be recycled can be separated from the garbage stream by sorting at the transfer station.