Recycle This!
I think recycling should be free because the only thing stopping more from doing it is money, time, and effort.
First let’s take a look at the opposite of recycling, garbage is its name. It makes sense to charge money to pick up peoples trash. Somebody produces trash and they pay some company to remove it and take it to a designated place, the dump.
Recycling on the other hand is like doing someone a favor. You sort the mess you have created so a company can pick it up organized, in order for them to easily break it down and produce new products. Why are we charged? I know they have to come get it, but shouldn’t they be happy to do so since that is how they get the materials to make new products?
Company x plans on building something and they need materials, so Company x pays money for materials to build product. The way recycling works, company x plans on building something, company x charges money to receive materials to build product. Very much backwards!
In the grand scheme of things we the recyclers should be paid. I’m pretty confident that nearly everyone would put forth the time and effort, if there was a ten dollar bill on their doorstep every Friday morning.
