S Frisch - 5/2/2014 12:40

The difficulty with plastic recycling around here is transportation.  We have lots of wide open space for landfill room and being a desert the leachate isn't as much a risk as what you would have in the Midwest.  Shipping to a processor is 700 or 800 miles to Portland or Central California, negates the energy savings on plastic recycling.  

Trash incinerators look like  a viable option, where they burn the plastics to generate electricity.  One was proposed near Boise and the public resistance killed it from what I last heard.  

I agree though, its sad how some people let the used plastic create a mess.