Fort Wayne has made life a little easier for its residents by going to one-bin recycling. Since the stuff is sorted for us by the people who take it away, we're more inclined to participate. Let's be thankful we don't live in Britain, where they've decided to go the other way, as evidenced by the photo:
Residents in Newcastle-under-Lyme are already being forced to follow the strict new recycling regime
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That's a great comparison (holding the door) Leo.
As for the recycling charade, I'm really kind of sad that I won't be alive in a 100 years or so when historians laugh hysterically at the folly of 20th & early 21st century society wasting all their economic resources and virtually destroying their way of life to avert bogus environmental catastrophes.
I can picture world leaders in 2110 shaking their heads in disbelief that an entire civilization committed economic suicide based wholly on the laughable suggestions of a hand full of environut charlatans convincing everyone a 4 billion year old planet could be destroyed by about 100 years of activity by man.
The photo reminds me of the Penn & Teller episode in which the magicians persuaded well-meaning people to separate their recyclables among a an astonishingly large collection of different-colored bins.
Their overall message, however, was unfortunate. They labeled ALL recycling "BS," and discouraged people from engaging in it.
Just because some recycling (paper, for example) doesn't result in lower prices does mean we should continue to fill our landfills with things that could be reprocessed.