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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Well, not everything that’s “recyclable” even gets recycled when it is sorted into its own “recyclable” bin. So they already have to apply time and energy to sort *that* stuff out.
It would become even more difficult to sort out legitimate non-recyclable trash from the recyclable stuff once it’s all mixed together.
Recycling isn’t a very profitable business and most places that recycle just… sell their waste to other countries to deal with it.
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