We used to cut the bottom out of iron cans, crush them flat and collect them for a year to get a decent amount and drop them off in passing by a metal recycler.
Now the value of a can of iron is not worth a second or two [I guess] let alone the cost of a truck specially coming down the street to collect it [there are no metal recyclers around these days since Steptoe and Son went out of business].
The most sensible recycling is to collect all the rubbish, take it to a bunch of prisoners with goggles and gloves and breathing gear if they like, tip it onto giant conveyor belts, and they could sort the iron cans, aluminium, clear glass, brown, green, newspapers, compostable banana skins, apple cores, leaves, and so on and on and on.
That would give them something useful to do, act as a disincentive to crime, create a lot of value out of rubbish, save people a lot of messing around with their rubbish, reduce truck travel and collection costs, save a lot of blather about recycling, reduce visual pollution, increase safety and cut rubbish dump costs.
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