Excellent remark, and as you suggest, it’s often a hidden cost. That might be a cost paid at society level, but the trash system does not work without some atte

Excellent remark, and as you suggest, it’s often a hidden cost. That might be a cost paid at society level, but the trash system does not work without some attention, energy and time. But there is a deeper topic behind these: what value foundations do we use to estimate what comes to our awareness. Without valuation judgment, there is no cost and no gain. For someone putting above all immediate serotonin peaks, an endless disposal of affordable first price might be enough. For someone that is striving to realize some daunting task that will catch most of other people in awe, it’s obviously mostly the second price that will matter: the more expensive the better. For someone driven by a sense of sustainable community of life forms, the emphasis will be all on recycling through virtuous loops. Of course I do have my own tropes that one might be guess from the way this points where formulated, but I recognize there is no absolute true accessible to human beings that will prescribe some categorical imperative between them.