Or a carbon tax!
Recycling presumably puts much less new CO2 into their air than making it new, and so would incentivize recycling more.
Recycling presumably puts much less new CO2 into their air than making it new, and so would incentivize recycling more.
I don't think this is the case for a few things... paper, cardboard, etc.
Metals are worth it though -- hence why some places will pay for it.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. If it did recycled products would be cheaper than new, but they aren't.
It depends a lot on how much free labor AKA consumer pre-sorting you get though. Countries where this is seen as normal and expected have workable recycling.
That's not in the past; it still happens across Europe. A lot of "recycling" is actually just shifting carbon emissions from Europe to developing nations.