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Certain aspects of recycling are terrific, like the now traditional system of deposit bottles & cans. Same too with recycling of large cardboard and plastic packaging.
I think you'd be surprised how much of the USA (the focus of this article) doesn't have a deposit for bottles and cans. When we go down there, I always sort them out because of habit, but often see them tossed in the trash by cleaning staff with everything else.
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Other parts of it have gone way too far though. We now have a state of affairs where the municipalities have "inspectors" checking to make sure that you've spend a good portion of your free time organizing your trash properly and, if you haven't, they have the power to give you a nice smiley Big Sister warning to do it right, or else. Yes, they're now literally bothering people in Calgary (for example) to make sure the dog shit goes into the compost bin instead of the garbage.
This is insanity, and it always happens whenever the goddamn politicians give too much influence to the damn SJWs with OCD who have no intention of ever leaving anyone alone, ever, even over the most nonsensical things. Insanity, and the only thing crazier is the disinterested body politic doing nothing during elections to kick these kinds of idiots out of office.
Yep, agreed!