I've been to landfills before, thank you. It's certainly possible with technology or manpower to separate the garbage. Sorting would require a "huge investment"

I've been to landfills before, thank you. It's certainly possible with technology or manpower to separate the garbage. Sorting would require a "huge investment" ? well good thing WM is a XXX-billion dollar corporation, right? I mean, otherwise that might hurt their bottom line. Think of the corporations, amirite? The real concern is how much energy that would require, but luckily many landfills can capture the methane emitted by previous disposal and what better way to use it than power on-side sorting facilities. My main point is that WM (and any other trash haulers, I know someone will say "WM isn't the only company - as if that adds any value to the conversation) is stagnating instead of innovating. Thinking ahead that within a decade or two, we might have a bacteria that eats plastic (and maybe even turns it into fuel!) or that burning more diesel (to pick up recyclables) might not be such a good idea. In other industries, they have real-time cameras that can sort tiny shards of broken glass (or grains of wheat!) to keep out contaminants. Theres no reason to think WM can't innovate similarly, they just have no pressure/incentive to.