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Originally Posted by Xist
I want to recycle everything, but it just isn't feasible, and if I wanted to recycle plastic into something useful, I really think that it would make more sense to pay schoolkids $5-10 an hour to rinse and dry plastic containers for an hour or two a day.
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You're getting nearer to my argument, that it doesn't make sense for millions of people to be recycling experts and clean and sort the recyclables, only to have that effort thwarted by those who don't sort or clean their recyclables.
It should all be a single container, a single truck that comes through the neighborhood (maybe yard debris still needs to be a separate container), and trained professionals with proper equipment and robots sorts through everything and cleans it.
I want to recycle everything once we figure out how to automate most everything and power those things with nearly free energy. You don't burn 100 gallons of fuel to recover 80 gallons worth of fuel equivalency. The economics always needs to make sense, otherwise it's both a waste of money and detrimental to our natural resources.