Do this. The folks out in Bozeman are terrific. The scenery is not half bad either. Same for the beer.
I was disappointed with their blog posts and a paper on recycling (paper is here http://perc.org/sites/default/files/ps47.pdf). For example, they write, “…curbside recycling typically wastes resources…indeed, a moment’s reflection will suggest why this finding must be true. In the ordinary course of everyday living…the only things that intentionally end up [as trash] are both low in value and costly to reuse or recycle. Yet these are the items that municipal recycling programs are targeting, the very things that people have already decided are too worthless or too costly to deal with further.”
Just because individuals have decided these things are too costly to “deal with” doesn’t mean they are always and for everyone. When we squeeze our own orange juice, we throw away the peels. But you once mentioned that OJ companies reuse/compost them. If curbside recycling TYPICALLY wastes resources, that implies it sometimes does not. I would think it would depend at least on the particular program, resource, and location. How can we as laypeople tell the good from the bad? I think that’s who needs to be targeted to make a change…who else is going to listen? The government?