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"Less trash means less money for sanitation workers "

Headline taken from KSL.com on December 29th, 2008. This small article just goes to show that you can never please everyone all of the time. Finally, we are producing less trash, but because the sanitation workers get paid by the pound and number of houses, their pay is a little less each week. Come on people make more garbage!

Now, if I am not mistaken, as a country, we are trying to find ways to produce less waste. Do you see something wrong here? Or, am I out in left field?

My question for the waste management companies that are paying in this way, does their business model allow them to exist if there is groundbreaking technology that allows consumers to purchase and use products where there is very little waste. For example, if we were able to reduce the amount of waste by 50%, would the waste management companies be able to operate. Or, will the government come in and legislate that we need to use x-amount of waste products to allow these companies to continue to work and charge for this service?

Just a thought.