Olddude - Yes I agree with you there is a lot of tax payer subsidy in recycling programs. Should there be? I think it's better than it being illegally dumped along roadsides, alley's, public and private property. I pay for my curbside recycling program at my house, my trash for my home is more than my water (now trash a little over $50 a month). We also pay for recycling dumpsters at work, they do cost much less than regular dumpsters. The only tax payer paying here is me!
I also pay for illegally dumped trash, we scrap what we can, recycle what we can, re-purpose what we can, sell what we can and then sort what's left - Compost the green waste what we can, any plastic, paper or glass goes to municipal recycling system (I help pay for), that get's processed recycled some more. We put very little trash into the waste stream, have cut my waste bill overall and the amount of trash by almost 50% (my goal is 90%).
Yes there's a lot of tax payers subsidizing to dispose of "Other's" trash, so are a lot of private property owners. We need to do it are we will live and work with trash/waste piled up around us. Do we really have a choice?
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