[rm_-rf_slash]

It takes a lot of cultural engineering to get people to be that diligent. I'm from an ultra liberal college town and I'll never forget going away to college and spending 15 minutes looking for the compost bin in my freshman dorm. No dice.

Then you have places like Florida, where nobody recycles. Trash is trash. Throw it away and take it to the curb. Even the most elegant and energy-efficient local dump system would go nowhere with a culture that would rather throw away and forget about it, and this is coming from a state that is most vulnerable to climate change yet is full of beach house-owning republicans who think climate change is a hoax.

[soperj]

Very soon here they're not going to accept garbage with compostable material in it. It'll be interesting how big of a push back that gets, but there is definitely ways to make people feel a bit of pain for living a throwaway culture.

[mcculley]

As a Floridian, I'm curious how it works elsewhere. In what ways are systems in other places better? I live in Seminole County and we have recycling bins. It sounds like you think it should go further.

[Vendan]

It varies by far more then on a state to state basis. I also grew up in Florida, and we had 2 bins of recycling, one for plastic/metal, one for paper. Moved to NC, we had just 1 can for all recycling, and then they decided that the recycling wasn't worth it, and stopped picking it up. Now everything goes in the trash, which is rather sad.