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I am not in favor of publicly owned waste management services. They really should all be privatized. If this happened, I would have no problem with, and fully support, companies charging a premium for the convenience of not recycling.

Also, this:
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And there is money and jobs to be made in recycling, if I am not mistaken.


...is not completely true. There's not that much money to be made unless one is already is the waste collection business.
I think most people would be in favor of mandatory recycling if local municipalities were as well. As it stands, it's not very convenient or easy to do. Most people don't realize (or care?) what they throw in the trash. Computers, cell phones, batteries, half-empty bottles of cleaning products all get thrown in the trash and are so dangerous to the environment.

I had heard a while back that there was legislation being introduced by someone (can't remember who) to cut down on the junk mail like sales papers, etc. we all receive and don't want. That stuff takes up a large portion of landfills in this country. I'm sure several retail associations killed it, though, because I haven't heard anything else about it.

The only thing that bothers me more than this is seeing perfectly beautiful landscapes strip-malled - which has come to almost a halt since the recession and the realization of the retailers that they had overbuilt. But I digress. I grew up in the country surrounded by plenty of trees and a creek and don't have much of an appreciation for concrete jungles, I guess. And I'm not convinced that "climate change" does or does not exist or, if it does, that humans are responsible for it, but I do know we should do a better job of protecting our planet.
At the very least Florence should expand the recycling to include items that do not bring them a profit, but do decrease our dependence on landfills, i.e. glass and other plastics beyond what they currently recycle. Many other communities do have mandatory recycling. I also don't like anything with the word 'mandatory', but it is really a matter of just accepting change. Once one gets used to it, recycling is not difficult. And in the long run, we will be saving money and land by having less waste to bury.
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Originally posted by dolemitejb:
I am not in favor of publicly owned waste management services. They really should all be privatized. If this happened, I would have no problem with, and fully support, companies charging a premium for the convenience of not recycling.

Also, this:
quote:
And there is money and jobs to be made in recycling, if I am not mistaken.


...is not completely true. There's not that much money to be made unless one is already is the waste collection business.


The last time I sold scrap metal(recycled) I got nearly $900 for a Saturday morning's work.

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