Why is recycling not done at the level of the dumps themselves by professionals as opposed to individual people?

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People are always expected to recycle themselves, but wouldn’t going through the garbage be easier in the dumps themselves to sift all recyclable waste from non-recyclable waste and sending it to the appropriate places be a more efficient and reliable way of doing things? Is this being done in any country, and if not, why not?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Where I live in the US my county uses property taxes to pay for everyone in the county to have recycling. But then, beyond that my garbage company also sorts garbage for recyclable materials. However, my garbage company is the only one I’ve ever heard of doing that.

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