If a city or company is going to make any money as a result of a recycling program, there are certain infrastructure concerns that will need to be met, first. For starters, if products are going to get from consumers to a central recycling center or even to a wider marketplace, the surface roads, railroad lines, barges and sea ports will have to be in reasonably good shape to facilitate interstate and international trade. This, of course, requires the vast energy resources and cooperation that is only possible as a result of a civic investment.
Of course, that isn’t the only type of infrastructure that is required to make recycling profitable. Recycling relies upon the use of specialized machinery at the central sorting facility, as well as specialized trucks and and equipment that makes collection possible. Without such physical support in the form of a recycling truck and easy curbside collection, there wouldn’t be any material to recycle in the first place.
