It is sad personal incentive gets people to act but all to true, hopefully in the very near future there will be an age cap so people who make decisions have to live to face the responsibility of their actions. As I loathe plastic I kill lantern flys and fix water damage in a basement in Queens. This is an important piece please recycle ♻️
I tend to agree that there needs to be personal incentive far beyond what we have today. When I was a kid, I was all too happy to walk around collecting aluminum cans from the side of the road since I knew I could sell the aluminum for about a penny apiece.... I wonder if there's any potential way to incentivize folks in a positive way to recycle more, something that splits the dividend between the person recycling and the environment.
There is actually a movement afoot in NY of raising can returns from the 5 cents they've always been to 10 cents. (It should be 25 to really work). But yes, one of many examples of how you can incentivize folks
Time and distance is shrinking indeed. Thanks for a thoughtful and interesting piece.
It is sad personal incentive gets people to act but all to true, hopefully in the very near future there will be an age cap so people who make decisions have to live to face the responsibility of their actions. As I loathe plastic I kill lantern flys and fix water damage in a basement in Queens. This is an important piece please recycle ♻️
An age cap, yes! My kids get to choose please not these old guys
I tend to agree that there needs to be personal incentive far beyond what we have today. When I was a kid, I was all too happy to walk around collecting aluminum cans from the side of the road since I knew I could sell the aluminum for about a penny apiece.... I wonder if there's any potential way to incentivize folks in a positive way to recycle more, something that splits the dividend between the person recycling and the environment.
There is actually a movement afoot in NY of raising can returns from the 5 cents they've always been to 10 cents. (It should be 25 to really work). But yes, one of many examples of how you can incentivize folks
We need something like this for plastic.
Yes and I meant bottles too here (at least here)