Probably manual sorting can offset some cost, however it's not clear (as I'm not an expert in this matter) if that makes a difference. Garbage prices can't go e

Probably manual sorting can offset some cost, however it's not clear (as I'm not an expert in this matter) if that makes a difference. Garbage prices can't go extremely low due to transportation costs that are constant. So at some point it doesn't really matter if sorting costs are offset to citizens or not - the transportation costs prevent them from being sufficiently low for the manufacturers.