Why can't we make recycling mandatory..don't we all share this environment. Trash isn't going to disappear!

Question

Why can't we make recycling mandatory..don't we all share this environment. Trash isn't going to disappear!

Answer 1

Recycling will only work if the factorys that make our possesions recycle. Watch 'The Story of Stuff' on  YouTube for more info

Answer 2

Recycling is more expensive than simply throwing the stuff out.  It's a matter of money.

New York City figured out a couple of years ago that if it had NOT engaged in recycling, they would have saved enough money to build two new high schools and put a new computer in every classroom.

Recycling costs.

Answer 3

there is this new plastic that some sceintists are making it bidegradable this is the wedsite  

Friendly Plastics. ScienceDaily.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200... go to that link and you could read it its cool

Answer 4

well in many countries (for ex. Germany) it is mandatory, or it will result in a hefty fine. Germans must sort all trash, and recyclable things, and if the garbage co. finds recyclable things in your trash, they will fine you. Germans also utilize their trash, burning it to make energy!

In a few states, you can get fines, such as Washington, they also have hefty litter fines aswell.

Answer 5

YES! i totaly agree,

i always make sure to recycle stuff like empty juice, milk and water jugs when im done using them.

Also, I write on backs off all my papers at school. And once there completly written all over i make sure to recycle them!

Answer 6

It will happen here sooner or later...

already 27 Years ago, when I still lived in Germany,

they actually would not pick up your garbage, if they saw anything in there that was "recyle -able" and the "recycling bins" were situated everywhere... it was very convenient...

If we had more people that thought like you,  our landfills wouldn't be "overflowing"...

Answer 7

you know what that is a really good idea instead of paying monet to try ad burn it you can get money for putting it in a different trash can

Answer 8

During the late 1980s, there was a big push on recycling. The majority of towns and cities had programs. In my town, it all faded away by about 1995, as it did in many smaller towns. The projects lost money and they quit.

Answer 9

i know. everyone knows about global warming and they all know what theyre doing when they litter. theyre just laazy bbastards.

Answer 10

I hate having people, especially the government, telling me what I HAVE to do.  I recycle cuz I love the Earth, not because I'm told I have to.

Answer 11

Because we're not yet a totalitarian society that gives the state the authority to micromanage our lives.  There are plenty of wonderful places where they do make recycling mandatory, those bastions of human progress like Cuba and North Korea.

Answer 12

I used to own a disposal company. Currently recycling is mandatory for disposal companies. You have to offer curbside service if requested and also have to place recycling centers based on both geographical location and per ca-pita customers serviced for that area. However the problem with enforcing it at the customer level is currently near impossible. There are alot of laws that the public aren't aware of such as contaminated trash. An example of contamination would be if a person sweeps up a parking lot. there would be alot of recyclable materials in that pile but once mixed with non-recyclable materials they would be considered contaminated. If a person was to be sited for throwing recyclable materials in the regular trash, he could site that it was contaminated before it was put into the can. How do you prove otherwise? That's the brief explanation of a very lengthy law and only one example of many such laws.

Judy H. Is mistaken, trash haulers who offer recycling service by telling their customer to put trash into separate color bags most definitely separate that at the dump. Remember, the dumps charge the haulers to dump their trucks but they don't charge for the recycled portion of the trash. We used to seperate every bag as if it was full of money.

Answer 13

OK now assume that we have a mandatory recycling law. Who will enforce it?Should we set up a governmental garbage police force. OK now we have a garbage police force. How will we tell who is not recycling fingerprint all the garbage. OK lets do that. Who will pay for this? How much will this cost? Think this through and get back to me.

Answer 14

That would be very good but its not that easy, most places don't want to pay the expense to recycle, such places as apartment complexes like where I live, don't want to put more than just one trash dumpster in the area, so we just dump everything into one bag and its taken away. Its suppose to be separated at the land fill, but I doubt it. They must stop making plastic bottles, bags use glass and reuse them again like years gone by, it must start their, we should refuse to buy things made of plastic and use our own carry all bags and not plastic ones. Like with the price of gasoline going sky high, if we don't drive as much and don't need to gas up as often, then the price will come down, supply and demand.

Answer 15

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