JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

On the contrary. I think about eight people on the planet would go
for an 8% increase in price to achieve these goals. But carry on.


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

Because they are easily fooled into joining a mass-movement; doing so gives
meaning and purpose to their dismal lives.

By any objective standard, individual recycling is an energy and resource
waster. The piddly amount of recyclable materials collected in community
projects never comes close to the cost of running the program.

But recycling makes a lot of people feel good. I suspect those who drive ten
miles to "properly" dispose of three glass jars experience something akin to
an orgasm.