If a business or government pays you for it, then recycling is effective. If they don't, then obviously it isn't useful.
I never really understood why people could not grasp this basic concept.
I never really understood why people could not grasp this basic concept.
Switzerland recycles 93% of all glass bottles(color sorted by consumers) and 83% of all PET bottles. Everything else has to be burned in a plant with minimal emission to recycle energy. PET recycling is financed by a fee of around 2 cents per bottle that every manufacturer has to pay.
This can only really work if the cost of disposal is baked into the goods at sale, and refunded for recycled goods. I suspect it would just end up causing people to use the landfills they have paid for.
Point is, it works. There is no excuse for other countries to do the same.