Explain to me, if the world is going on about recycling and how it’s good for the environment
Why is it that nobody is doing it? I’ve been told that recycling helps to save costs and money so shouldnt everyone be recycling?
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For people, probably laziness but on a bigger scale recycling is still marginally more expensive. You need to sort, salvage, reprocess ship and remanufacture recycling. Recycling programs in first world countries is usually subsidized but lacking and inefficient. Then it gets sorted and loaded for export domestically which costs a lot of money in labour and infrastructure. Then it arrives in a poorer country in the same shape it was when it was thrown away. All the hard to recycle parts are discarded in to the overflowing landfills or burned. Then what’s cost effectively useful is reprocessed for the same limited use products that got it in your country in the first place.
Recycling is great, but it’s a nightmare to manage. If it was easy and cost effective the people with money would find a way to make us all do it
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