not much recycleing happens here despite the fancy transfer station.
The self righteous dutifully wash out their mikl container. and hand in their bottles and cans.
all of it goes to the burner, but lefties don’t want to face that truth.
Also forcing people to do the will of the state in small matters in their lives makes it easier to make them do more and more... think about it
when gas prices are low cardboard gets recycled
otherwise it is metal and electronics.
nothing else.
I recycle newspaper, magazines and cardboard. I do this because it saves me money.
The fees for home trash pick-up are somewhere north of $22/m (I haven’t checked in a while) with no re-cycling requirements. If I bring my trash to the transfer station I am charged $1 per 30 gal bag. Newspapers, magazines and cardboard take up too much room in bags, but can be disposed of there for no charge. I live alone and so generate less than a bag a week. Since I have receptacles (cans) a place to keep them (old coal house) and the Xfer station is not very far out of my way, this works well for me. I just keep my receipts to satisfy the county regs.
Recycling is about conditioning people to follow the law, no matter how stupid, and feel righteous about doing so.
If you count the value of the hours spent by people recycling, and added the value of the collection and handling systems built into every house, there is no way this system makes economic sense.
The only way it makes money is by not compensating the people who do most of the work. Kind of like cotton farming in the American South back in... say... 1855.