I don’t think that tasking people to sort waste makes long-run sense. Not an efficient use of human time – you cannot just treat that labor as zero cost.
If recycling becomes important enough, we can develop waste sorting machines and they can harvest the landfills. If we aren’t to the point where that makes economic sense, then we aren’t to the point where recycling a given item is sufficiently warranted.
I don’t think that tasking people to sort waste makes long-run sense. Not an efficient use of human time – you cannot just treat that labor as zero cost.
If recycling becomes important enough, we can develop waste sorting machines and they can harvest the landfills. If we aren’t to the point where that makes economic sense, then we aren’t to the point where recycling a given item is sufficiently warranted.