REVISITING RECYCLING

At the moment, recycling is a hit or miss proposition. Most communities don't provide simple access to the tools needed for recycling and there are reports that show energy consumption used to recycle a product is greater than just re-creating the original product. (This doesn't take into account, of course, the state of our dumps.)

I'd be willing to bet that if the entire nation faithfully and consistently recycled everything it could get its hands on, that cost would diminish to a point where it became energy efficient - maybe even as far as negative zero sum.

We're also talking job creation as well. Jobs that are low-, medium- and high-tech. Needed would be an army of personnel to create, build and maintain a vast infrastructure; another army of personnel to run an industry that permeates every single community. A GREEN industry that takes trash away from the community rather than trashing the community, no less. Who wouldn't want that?

I hate to see the government micromanage America, but would mandatory recycling be a good law?

Do we need a law to jump start a national mission to efficiently recycle?