Why don't we have a Nationwide Comprehensive Recycling program?
Everyone in the U.S. should be able to recycle paper, glass, plastics 1-7, tin, aluminum and steel at the curb or at the very least at a county recycling center. We should also have a national composting program and capture the methane for power generation. What about using everyone's grass trimmings to make ethanol?
That is the bare MINIMUM of what should be in place. Then, what about things like electronics, clothing (jeans for insulation), construction waste, and other products that are routinely ending up in landfills across the country.
Wouldn't it be easier and more cost effective to run programs that KEEP trash out of the landfill to begin with? I don't see the justification to just keep throwing things away when we know there are limited materials and resources to be had on this planet.
Our kids and their kids (etc.) are really going to think we are idiots, when their future economy and goods are all based on reclaiming resources we threw away because it was "convenient at the time".
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All what you just mentioned in your post, happen right now in Europe. And develop every day. I'm sorry to say that from the people I met in America, not many are interested in hearing about recycling. At least I'm glad to see that others are as frustrated as I am.
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