If producers directly bear the cost of recycling, they are more likely to want to drive down costs by investing in recycling technology and developing appliances that are easy to recycle.
He had someone, a young intern high school student working there, make up signs with arrows that said 'recycle stale old ideas here, ' and we taped them to the recycling cans.
In a sense the problem is the same as deciding which quality of ore to mine in the first place: we now need to either find richer sources to recycle from or arrange how we use these materials in the first place to facilitate recycling.
While this program is designed to encourage families to recycle their Ziploc bags, SC Johnson hopes that it leads families to begin a more comprehensive residential recycling program.