Jim Yanik wrote:
Kurt Ullman wrote in
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In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

Why do people recycle containers & paper when it would be so much
easier to just throw the stuff into the regular trash?
Because it is free where it is successful?


OTOH,why don't they just process the "regular trash" and separate
recyclables from it,burn the rest for electric and steam generation?
What's left is much smaller and less apt to damage ground water or spread
pollution.

One word--cost.

Second word--practicality.

The second reduces to the first in large part, but there are some added
factors...

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