"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>
> It wouldn't make much sense to burn all that gas if everyone
> had to make trips to the recycle center.

At work we recycle certain foam plastics. It is amazing how many people
drive over to us with a big SUV to drop off a tiny bit of plastic to
recycle. They burn 20X the amount of gas than they saved. It they toss it
in the trash, it goes to a trash to energy facility instead.