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Why can’t we just recycle our own trash here in the USA! ?
Imagine all the job creations it could bring. Solar and wind is far from our reach to invest in. Why not develop a system to where we can protect our environment and our pockets by reusing rather then creating new.
6 Answers
- kswck2Lv 72 months agoFavourite answer
Governments have made it economically non-feasible with regulations.
- 2 months ago
You can. Here in Canada, society looks down on you if you don't: reduce, reuse and recycle. It just makes sense. I don't see why youn don't already have a recycling program...oh thats right, your an American.
- random_manLv 72 months ago
Well, we could, we would just have to pay a lot more to dispose of our recycling than we do now, because it would cost a lot more (due to the higher cost of labor).
- οικοςLv 72 months ago
What would you do with a pile of broken glass? Mixed plastics? Contaminated paper? Recycling takes an extensive physical plant, large amounts of feedstock, and a market. Individuals don't have any of that.
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You CAN invest in solar and wind energy by buying stock.
- 2 months ago
Expense. In order to dispose of trash domesticly you would have to pass enviromental regulations, and that is expensive, the few facilities that do comply can't handle the volume. So it's cheaper to send it half way round the world to a country that doesn't care about enviromental regulations, but will sign a piece of paper saying it does so they are covered.
