Those laws. OMG.
Everyone should have to drive their trash to the landfill at least once, to see what it looks like, that pile of containers, boxes, plastics, a mountain of garbage, and that's the recycle pile. The colossal metal dumspters are full of fixable furniture, bicycles, and things that could be re-purposed, all mixed in with filth. Every citizen should have to see a landfill up close - and tour a meat packing plant - and see what factories are dumping into rivers. Ignorance is bliss. And I, too, despite my efforts to minimize my "Carbon Footprint," have piles of trash and recyclables. Once every six to eight weeks I drive it to the landfill. Ugh. Plastic water bottles just blow my mind. Most aren't recycled. The lids don't recycle. It's disgusting. Must end this rant now.