Who created the idea of recycling?

Question

It just came to my mind...

Answer 1

Probably someone who saw financial gain in someone else's trash.  If there wasn't money in used plastic bottles no one would pick them up.

Answer 2

Poor people who ate rubbish they found in bins

Answer 3

Glass was recycled about 500 years before Christ

Answer 4

some dude named bryan...

Answer 5

some greenie who is now kickin back in a villa somewere laughin his head off

Answer 6

i dont even know i guess some pot smoking hi-pi