What if there were something that could create 1.5 million new jobs, reduce carbon emissions equal to taking 50 million cars off the road, cut dependence on foreign oil, increase exports, save water, improve air quality and reduce toxic waste? What if it were low-cost and readily implemented? Wouldn’t everyone do it? At a time of wildfires, droughts and persistent unemployment, wouldn’t it be a centerpiece of the presidential campaign?
A drive to make the act of recycling as automatic as stopping at a red light.
Well, there is such a thing. It’s called recycling. You might ask: Don’t we already do that? We think we do, but most of the time, we don’t. Nationally, only about a third of municipal solid waste is recycled.

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